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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

1028 Episodes • By American Public Media • slowdownshow.org
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 ...more
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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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1100: Ode to The Lone Star State by Jubi Arriola-Headley
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Apr 19 2024 6m
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1099: Something by Andrea Cohen
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Apr 18 2024 6m
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1098: Rant by Nathalie Anderson
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Apr 17 2024 6m
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1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
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Apr 16 2024 5m
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1096: Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca, translated by Merryn Williams
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Apr 15 2024 5m
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1095: Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky
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Apr 12 2024 5m
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1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch
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Apr 11 2024 7m
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1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
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Apr 10 2024 5m
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1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah
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Apr 9 2024 6m
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1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield
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Apr 8 2024 5m
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1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker
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Apr 5 2024 5m
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1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández
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Apr 4 2024 5m
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1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
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Apr 3 2024 5m
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1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist
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Apr 2 2024 5m
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1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet
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Apr 1 2024 4m
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1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze
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Mar 29 2024 5m
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1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah
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Mar 28 2024 6m
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1083: first person by Ed Roberson
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Mar 27 2024 5m
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1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe
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Mar 26 2024 6m
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1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
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Mar 25 2024 5m
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1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
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Mar 22 2024 6m
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1079: Cassandra by Sasha West
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Mar 21 2024 6m
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1078: Ferment by Monica Rico
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Mar 20 2024 5m
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1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn
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Mar 19 2024 4m
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1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart
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Mar 18 2024 5m
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