The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday. Produced by APM Studios in partnership with The Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Make us a part of your routine as you drink coffee in the morning, as you take a walk in nature, or as you wind down to go to sleep in the evening. With host Major Jackson, we collectively take a moment to calm, to inspire, to learn, and to engage with the best emerging poets and established writers of our time and generations past, from Emily Dickinson to Danez Smith, from Amanda Gorman to Mary Oliver.

Listen to our back catalog for episodes by our previous hosts, Tracy K. Smith and Ada Limón, as well as guest hosts Jenny Xie, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tina Chang, Nate Marshall, Shira Erlichiman, and Jason Schneiderman. Our hosts and production team select poems that move them, and we hope they move you, too.

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How many episodes are there of The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily?

There are 399 episodes avaiable of The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily.

What is The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily about?

We have categorized The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily as:

  • Arts
  • Performing Arts

Where can you listen to The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily?

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily is available, among others places, on:

  • Spotify
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  • Podtail
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When did The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily start?

The first episode of The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily that we have available was released 28 November 2023.

Who creates the podcast The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily?

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily is produced and created by American Public Media.