Today’s poem is The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Mercy by Dessa.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I never took... more

Today’s poem is Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Occasionally,... more

Today’s poem is The Mothers by Jill Bialosky.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Sl(e)ight by Alice White. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “We... more

Today’s poem is The Nation by Roy Fisher.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “It’s... more

Today’s poem is Blue Hour by Chanda Feldman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Accessory to War by Kim Stafford.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Life In The Gush Of Boasts by Elijah Burrell. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Chaos Theory by Clint Smith.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Occasionally,... more

Today’s poem is How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook.The Slowdown is... more

Today’s poem is 1971 Pontiac LeMans by Thomas Bolt. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Ode to The Lone Star State by Jubi Arriola-Headley.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Something by Andrea Cohen.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "On a... more

Today’s poem is Rant by Nathalie Anderson.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "It feels... more

Today’s poem is Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca, translated by Merryn Williams.The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "Today’s... more

Today’s poem is When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "Today’s... more

Today’s poem is To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is After She Died by Mary Szybist.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk.The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is first person by Ed Roberson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is A Certain Light by Marie Howe. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is Dream Song 14 by John Berryman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Cassandra by Sasha West. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “The... more

Today’s poem is Ferment by Monica Rico. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “As... more

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Why is it so hard to write a... more

Today’s poem is a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Translation by Anne Spencer.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “The last... more

Today’s poem is My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun... more

Today’s poem is Great Question by Lisa Olstein. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is An Exchange by Corey Marks. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Fish Pier, Santa Monica by Vernon Duke, translated by Boris Dralyuk. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is blues-elegy for cheryl by Evie Shockley. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is First of March by Stacie Cassarino. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Dry Spell by Lisa Sewell. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking a break... more

Today’s poem is Kinds of Silence by Elisabeth Murawski. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking a break... more

Today’s poem is A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé by Karisma Price. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking... more

Today’s poem is Feeding the Koi by Rosanna Young Oh. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking a... more

Today’s poem is this is a library by Asiya Wadud. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking a... more

Today’s poem is Love Poem, with Birds by Barbara Kingsolver. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, in... more

Today’s poem is Love Sits by My Father by Qutouf Elobaid. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week,... more

Today’s poem is Short Essay on Love by Sarah Manguso. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, in... more

Today’s poem is Without Name by Pauli Murray. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, in honor of... more

Today’s poem is Love and the Deli Counter by Jill McDonough. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week,... more

Today’s poem is Perhaps by Wen Yiduo, translated by Arthur Sze. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Love and the Moon by Nan Cohen. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is The Dangers of Contemplation by Ron Slate. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Facebook Status by Adrian Blevins. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues by Sahar Muradi. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Dancing at The Get Down by Cat Wei. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Hunger by Ryler Dustin. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World by Katie Farris. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Body's Ken by Simon West. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Venus's Flytraps by Yusef Komunyakaa. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is To The Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] or Daffodils by William Wordsworth. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is You & the Donkey Cart by Rosa Alcalá. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week,... more

Today’s poem is To The Stone-Cutters by Robinson Jeffers.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, we’re sharing listener... more

Today’s poem is After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On by Joy Sullivan. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Mixed Marriage by Nick Laird. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Ode to Badminton by Prageeta Sharma.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is By Then by David Rivard.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I... more

Today’s poem is The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is What Good Is Silence by Phuong T. Vuong. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is The Lifeline by Pádraig Ó Tuama.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Ailish Hopper.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers by Katie Marya.The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Pleasure by Victoria Redel. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Cliché by V. Penelope Pelizzon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is On Meeting My Biological Father by Sarah Audsley.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield. The Slowdown is... more

Today’s poem is Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear by Alleliah Nuguid. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Fourth Wall Arpeggio by A. Van Jordan.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Yet, the Loveliness by Michelle Bitting.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is The Memory of the Young by Maria Hummel.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Ode to Bones by Lynne Thompson.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is Ashes by Rahma O. Jimoh. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Hurrying Toward the Present by Suzanne Lummis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Two Shadows by Maurice Manning.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I... more

Today’s poem is Making Things by Major Jackson. This moment of pause is a shortened version of an interview with... more

Today’s poem is Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Harvard, Illinois... more

Today’s poem is Ambition by Sarah Wetzel.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem... more

Today’s poem is Cuffing Season by Lisa Fay Coutley.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Parallel Worlds by Lester Graves Lennon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is In the Seam of Life by Rachel Galvin. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Death Letter #2 by Sean Thomas Dougherty. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Date by Taneum Bambrick. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “There’s... more

Today’s poem is Reading Poetry in Illness by Anya Krugovoy Silver. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Morning Glory by Patricia Spears Jones. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Bloodroot by Mary-Alice Daniel. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.In this episode, Major writes… “Bluegrass conjures... more

Today’s poem is Self-care Bucket List by Nancy K. Pearson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Teleology by Willie Lin. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “We’ve... more

Today’s poem is Kinds of Silence by Elisabeth Murawski. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem by Eleni Sikelianos. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Something Sweet by Hannah Lowe. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is eco-hood by Melania Luisa Marte. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is What to Do With the Hedges by Bernard Ferguson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Without Name by Pauli Murray. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Secular and Inconsolable by Noah Blaustein. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is To the bartender who tends to more than just the bar by Annie Marhefka. The Slowdown is... more

Today’s poem is I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is clap-on by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport by Sidney Wade. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Letter to the Editor by Andrea Gibson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is ACT! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff) by India Lena González. The Slowdown is your... more

Please note that today’s episode contains mentions and descriptions of suicide. If this topic is difficult for you, please feel... more

Today’s poem is Imago by Sandra Alcosser. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Googling Ourselves by Philip Schultz. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Feeding the Koi by Rosanna Young Oh. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Hillwood by Mark Jarman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Totalitarian by Tyler Mills. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is EGGSHELLS by Michael Kleber-Diggs. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman... more

Today’s poem is Might Kindred by Mónica Gomery. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Poem at the Top of a Mountain by Angel Nafis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is Things Haunt by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is Rain by Adrian Keith Smith. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Through a closed mouth the flies enter by Pablo Neruda. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is Villanelle by Michelle Lin. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Shira... more

Today’s poem is The Listening World by Hannah Emerson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is And the Beautiful by Paul Celan. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is sights and sounds on my way to you by Geleisa George. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Wonder Wheel by Wo Chan. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Love After Love by Derek Walcott. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Did you want to come in? by Temperance Aghamohammadi. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Sword Swallowing Lessons by Judy Kaber. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Light Upon The Body by Alison Braid. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Voyeuristic Intentions by Adele Elise Williams. This episode was originally released on August 4, 2023. The Slowdown... more

Today’s poem is this is a library by Asiya Wadud. This episode was originally released on July 26, 2023. The... more

Today’s poem is My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail by Michelle Whittaker. This episode was originally released on June 28, 2023. The... more

Today’s poem is Happy Campus by Rodrigo Toscano. This episode was originally released on August 3, 2023. The Slowdown is... more

Today’s poem is The Statues and Us by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Martin McKinsey. This episode was originally released on... more

Today’s poem is On Mars by Ariana Benson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Ungendered 2 by Kwame Sound Daniels. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Us by Zaffar Kunial. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Since... more

Today’s poem is The Long Goodbye by Diana Whitney. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Ode to Purple Summer by Sabrina Benaim. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Polycardial by James Hoch. This episode was originally released on February 3, 2023. The Slowdown is your... more

Today’s poem is Cricket Song by George Kalogeris. This episode was originally released on February 27, 2023. The Slowdown is... more

Today’s poem is Foxglove by Ambalila Hemsell. This episode was originally released on February 1, 2023. The Slowdown is your... more

Today’s poem is Hymn to Church Basements by Joan Kwon Glass. This episode was originally released on May 4, 2023.... more

Today’s poem is September by Nathaniel Perry. This episode was originally released on February 13, 2023. The Slowdown is your... more

Love Poem, with Birds by Barbara Kingsolver. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is from "Excess Sonnets" by Isabel Prioleau. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is abundance of light by erica lewis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Afternoon in Andalusia by Sahar Romani. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Nocturne by Oliver Baez Bendorf. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260) by Emily Dickinson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is On Earth by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall by John Keene. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Rooms by the Sea by Lauren Aliza Green. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Hair by Clarence Major. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Love Sits by My Father by Qutouf Elobaid. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limón. This June, the US Poet Laureate... more

Today’s poem is Two Photographs by Theresa Lola. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Failed Essay on Privilege by Elisa Gonzalez. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is I wanted music by Sarah Ruhl. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is from FIXER by Edgar Kunz. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Thirty-Fifth Year by Charif Shanahan. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Willing in the Orisha by Camonghne Felix. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Crackerbell by Mary Ruefle. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Shira... more

Today’s poem is The Jungle by Carrie Fountain. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Sonnet written walking under the mess some magnolia made by Jay Deshpande. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is The Dictator in Prison by Adélia Prado, translated by Ellen Doré Watson. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Very Large Moth by Craig Arnold. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest... more

Today’s poem is After We Buried the Dog in the Dark by Jin Cordaro. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today's poem is Survivor by Geffrey Davis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “These... more

Today’s poem is A Guy in a Black SUV by William J Harris. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is Sorcery by Jessica Hagedorn.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem... more

Today’s poem is While Shaving by Alfredo Aguilar. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes... more

Today’s poem is Voyeuristic Intentions by Adele Elise Williams.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Happy Campus by Rodrigo Toscano.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Labor Theory of Value by Angie Sijun Lou.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Penmanship by Allison Joseph.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem... more

Today’s poem is Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Epilogue by Robert Lowell.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem... more

Today’s poem is elegy for the moaner, 2016 by Airea D. Matthews.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is this is a library by Asiya Wadud. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Prayer by Philip Metres.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem... more

Today’s poem is Via Politica by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Ani Gjika.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Country of Water by Mahogany L. Browne. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Theme for the nautical cowboy by Kinsale Drake.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé by Karisma Price. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Not It by Caitlin Doyle.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Memories... more

Today’s poem is Dear Red by Jonathan Maule.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is Invented Landscape by L.A. Johnson.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Each... more

Today’s poem is Take This Poem by Elizabeth Willis. This episode was recorded live, in-person, at On Air Fest 2023.... more

Today’s poem is Vision from the Blue Plane-Window by Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Jonathan Cohen.The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Love and the Deli Counter by Jill McDonough. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is from "fabula: towards a black mirror” by Victoria Adukwei Bulley. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? by Garrett Hongo. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Voices of the Air by Katherine Mansfield. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope by Dean Rader. The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Poem by Jorie Graham. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “As... more

Today’s poem is The Messenger by Brynn Saito. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is How Long Could I Have Been Weightless? by Colin Channer. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail by Michelle Whittaker. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is After the Farm was Sold to FedEx by Carlie Hoffman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is A State of Permanent Visibility by Steve Healey.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Self-Portrait as Derivatives Trader by José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Voyeur by Paige Taggart. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s... more

Today’s poem is The Statues and Us by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Martin McKinsey. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Boy Shooting at a Statue by Billy Collins. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Morning in a City by J. Mae Barizo. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is The Poet by Bert Meyers. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is In An Elevator with Ashbery, Crossing Stanzas, Bashfully by Alina Stefanescu. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Areyto for the Shipwrecked: The Case for Spanglish by Vincent Toro. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is from THIRSTY by Dionne Brand. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Emptying by Aaron Zhang. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I... more

Today’s poem is Portrait of My Father With the Letter V by Bill Hollands. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is Burnt Plastic by Sean Singer. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Part by Phillis Levin. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Jason... more

Today’s poem is To the Friend Who Is Crying on the Phone by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. The Slowdown is your... more

Today’s poem is in the dormitories after dark by James Fujinami Moore. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Uh Huh: Hi, Hula Tooth by K. Silem Mohammad. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Simulation Theory by Leigh Stein. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host... more

Today’s poem is Short Talk on Waterproofing by Anne Carson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Sorrow Is Innate in the Human by Francesca Bell. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Where are the girls who were so beautiful? from “33” by Julia Alvarez.The Slowdown is your daily... more

Today’s poem is Stereo by Anne Waldman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “‘Tis... more

Today’s poem is Dear Past and Future Metastasis, by Chiyuma Elliott. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is He Laughed With A Laugh by JonArno Lawson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is Extreme Close-up by Susan Rich. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is The Pathology of Currency by Matthew Lippman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is She Loves Me, She Love Me Not by Desirée Alvarez. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.... more

Today’s poem is The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish by Joshua Weiner. The Slowdown is your... more

Today’s poem is For the Poet Who Is Your High School English Teacher by Gary Margolis. The Slowdown is your... more

Today’s poem is This Is My Vow by Lucia Mae Pitts. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more

Today’s poem is The Lifeline by Pádraig Ó Tuama. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major... more

Today’s poem is Nowhere Else to Go by Linda Sue Park. This week’s episodes are for, and feature, young poets.... more

Today’s poem is Olympians vs. Modernity by Adelaide Sendlenski. This week’s episodes are for, and feature, young poets. Adelaide, today’s... more

Today’s poem is Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This week’s episodes are for, and feature, young poets. Ever since taking... more

Today’s poem is Occasional Poem by Jaqueline Woodson. This week’s episodes are for, and feature, young poets. Today’s co-host, Jasper,... more

Today’s poem is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. This week’s episodes are for, and feature, young poets. Our producers met up... more

Today’s poem is Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In... more

Today’s poem is Hymn to Church Basements by Joan Kwon Glass.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Ethnic Arithmetic by Sara R. Burnett.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Tranströmer.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes…... more

Today’s poem is Four-in-Hand by Kweku Abimbola.The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "When I... more

Today’s poem is Tea with Ann by Mary Brancaccio.In this episode, Major writes… “I had always thought my friendships would... more

Today’s poem is Worry (the Dybbuk) by Anthony Immergluck.In this episode, Major writes… “After living through all manner of personal... more

Today’s poem is To the Buyer of Our Old Home by Helen Pruitt Wallace.In this episode, Major writes… “If you... more

Today’s poem is La Peste by Marilyn Nelson.In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem states a truth about turbulent times.... more

Today’s poem is Last Night I Had Such Good Dreams by Jennifer Perrine.In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem points... more

Today’s poem is Apologia by Cherene Sherrard.In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem, drawn from the language of biology, contains... more

Today’s poem is Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s ingenious poem calls attention... more

Today’s poem is Diving at Blue Hole by Ally Young.In this episode, Major writes… “In the spirit of Walt Whitman... more

Today’s poem is from BOOK OF THE OTHER by Truong Tran.In this episode, Major writes… “Names carry family histories, maybe... more

Today’s poem is And Everywhere Offering Human Sound by Joan Houlihan.In this episode, Major writes… “Through my many years of... more

Today’s poem is The "I Want" Song by Rachel Richardson. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode,... more

Today’s poem is Placebo by Preeti Vangani. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “When... more

Today’s poem is To be brave, I look to the daffodil by Susan Nguyen. The Slowdown is your daily poetry... more

Today’s poem is from LET IT BE BROKE by Ed Pavlić. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this... more