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Major Jackson @Poet_Major delivers a different way to see the world—through poetry. Produced in partnership w/ @PoetryFound. Support the show at https://t.co/FSbO1gtNvK slowdownshow.org Joined September 2018-
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I promise this summer, no really, I’ll help you tame your back lot. The kids and I will be over. I’ll bring a rake and pruning shears. You’ll put on a pot of tea. Today’s poem is “Tea with Ann” by Mary Brancaccio bit.ly/3VbOcvR
“Today’s poem implies that our friends are our bounty. Our essential relationships are born from shared stories over an expanse of time as well as the effort we put into physically being with each other.” Today’s poem is “Tea with Ann” by Mary Brancaccio bit.ly/3VbOcvR
I have a worry mother and I have a worry father and once they shared a worry and my own worry a sprout in this worry dirt, bullied by the worry weeds, spoiled by the worry sun and rain and Today’s poem is “Worry (the Dybbuk)” by Anthony Immergluck bit.ly/3HgK6Nl
“Today’s poem points comically to the omnipresence of worry, how it's rooted in the soil of our existence,” shares @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is “Worry (the Dybbuk)” by Anthony Immergluck bit.ly/3HgK6Nl
And we could share which walls absorb sadness, / till morning light leans in comforting the contours / of the bed, but chances are you’ll learn this / on your own. Today’s poem is “To The Buyer of Our Old Home” by @HelenPWallace bit.ly/3L5Dt1u
“Today’s wise poem unearths the idiosyncrasies of an old home and in doing so, reveals how its past and future inhabitants are woven together in time,” shares @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is “To The Buyer of Our Old Home” by @HelenPWallace bit.ly/3L5Dt1u
“Today’s poem states a truth about turbulent times. After the sadness, fear, and uncertainty, a group of us will inevitably feel that distinct feeling of having surmounted some great hardship,” says @Poet_Major Today’s poem is “La Peste” by Marilyn Nelson bit.ly/3mZDLie
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#ClipOfTheDay: Poet and producer of @slowdownshow Myka Kielbon introduces a special episode featuring a conversation with host @Poet_Major and poet @AriaAber, author of the Whiting Award–winning collection, Hard Damage. at.pw.org/Slowdown
I woke myself up laughing, and today I went down / to the lake and sat for an hour listening to ice / shift and break into endless shards, its creaking ceaseless, Today’s poem is “Last Night I Had Such Good Dreams” by Jennifer Perrine bit.ly/3AovAix
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“Sometimes words directed back to ourselves as lack of worth, the self-critiques we vocalize, though of our own making, are sentiments put there by someone else,” shares @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is “Last Night I Had Such Good Dreams” by Jennifer Perrine bit.ly/3AovAix
We're thrilled to see Cherene Sherrard featured on today's episode of @slowdownshow. Thank you @Poet_Major for featuring "Apologia" from her second collection, GRIMOIRE. Listen up!
We're thrilled to see Cherene Sherrard featured on today's episode of @slowdownshow. Thank you @Poet_Major for featuring "Apologia" from her second collection, GRIMOIRE. Listen up!
“Today’s poem, drawn from the language of biology, contains a strong and simple message about diversity in society,” shares @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is “Apologia” by Cherene Sherrard @AutumnHousePrs bit.ly/41mu7oZ
I’ve been listening to @slowdownshow for over a year; it’s surreal to see one of my most personal poems featured on the show (& hear it read in @Poet_Major's voice!). Honored to have Learning Money in Reverse featured & put in convo with Major’s own life - “Where I’m from...
I’ve been listening to @slowdownshow for over a year; it’s surreal to see one of my most personal poems featured on the show (& hear it read in @Poet_Major's voice!). Honored to have Learning Money in Reverse featured & put in convo with Major’s own life - “Where I’m from...
I return my first pair of full-priced boots. / I un-sign my first lease. I go home. // My parents remarry. I have not yet chosen / the school that will cost their life savings. Today’s poem is “Learning Money in Reverse” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph bit.ly/3KTSymD
“Today’s ingenious poem calls attention to the lived realities of financial literacy, how it’s touch & go, and how it’s thrust upon us if we are not fortunate to receive those lessons in our home.” Today’s poem is “Learning Money in Reverse” by @niusteph bit.ly/3KTSymD
In Wimberley, Texas, there is a hole in the sandstone someone has called definitely deep blue. Bluebonnets grow on the road up to it and lost mountain bluebirds fly around and in it in concentric circles. “Diving at Blue Hole” by Ally H. Young bit.ly/3KLidO6
“Today’s poem continues the rich tradition of celebrating a poetry of place, utterly unique & rich for its ability to cultivate its poets to sing our land into our literary record,” says @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is “Diving at Blue Hole” by Ally H. Young bit.ly/3KLidO6
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@slowdownshow @MeditativeStory Yours were some of the few podcasts I remembered . . . 👏🏽 youtube.com/watch?v=H4LtFI…
Congrats @brancaccio_mary & thank you to @slowdownshow for choosing "Tea with Ann" from Mary's stellar debut collection, Fierce Geometry, available wherever books are sold. #poetry #firstbook #slowdownshow
“Today’s poem implies that our friends are our bounty. Our essential relationships are born from shared stories over an expanse of time as well as the effort we put into physically being with each other.” Today’s poem is “Tea with Ann” by Mary Brancaccio bit.ly/3VbOcvR
@slowdownshow @Poet_Major Thanks so much Major Jackson for featuring “To the Buyer of Our Old Home” in today’s Slowdown, and always for your poignant reflections!
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Congratulations to @niusteph, whose poem from CN 36 was featured on @slowdownshow on Thursday!— slowdownshow.org/episode/2023/0…
We're thrilled to see Cherene Sherrard featured on today's episode of @slowdownshow. Thank you @Poet_Major for featuring "Apologia" from her second collection, GRIMOIRE. Listen up!
“Today’s poem, drawn from the language of biology, contains a strong and simple message about diversity in society,” shares @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is “Apologia” by Cherene Sherrard @AutumnHousePrs bit.ly/41mu7oZ
One of my favorite poems. I was blown away when I first read it in Copper Nickel last year… and I have it bookmarked ! ✨
I return my first pair of full-priced boots. / I un-sign my first lease. I go home. // My parents remarry. I have not yet chosen / the school that will cost their life savings. Today’s poem is “Learning Money in Reverse” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph bit.ly/3KTSymD
I’ve been listening to @slowdownshow for over a year; it’s surreal to see one of my most personal poems featured on the show (& hear it read in @Poet_Major's voice!). Honored to have Learning Money in Reverse featured & put in convo with Major’s own life - “Where I’m from...
I return my first pair of full-priced boots. / I un-sign my first lease. I go home. // My parents remarry. I have not yet chosen / the school that will cost their life savings. Today’s poem is “Learning Money in Reverse” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph bit.ly/3KTSymD
A fave by my Diode pressmate @niusteph
I return my first pair of full-priced boots. / I un-sign my first lease. I go home. // My parents remarry. I have not yet chosen / the school that will cost their life savings. Today’s poem is “Learning Money in Reverse” by Stephanie Niu @niusteph bit.ly/3KTSymD
.@Poet_Major selected "To Be Brave, I Look to the Daffodil" by @ASU's @suz_poet for @slowdownshow saying the poem "finds a symbol of bravery in nature, and teaches us that choosing to act...is a matter of persistence." Listen: ow.ly/UBHJ50NLfCq #ASUHumanities
@majalukic113 @tristanbergh ahh so good. been obsessed w this poem by @EstanislaoPoet ever since i first heard on it on the @slowdownshow
Shoutout and thanks to @gnourtnart for his poem and the legendary work of @kayapress.
“Today’s poem highlights those psychic demands of integrating into a society while carrying our names, what we go through in order not to feel othered or marginal,” shares @Poet_Major. Today’s poem is from BOOK OF THE OTHER by @gnourtnart @kayapress bit.ly/43Iflu3
'That’s one thing we’re good for, we families: It’s our job to wave.' This poem by Charlotte Pence lives rent free in my heart. Thank you @slowdownshow @Poet_Major 🌹slowdownshow.org/episode/2023/0…
“The podcast reminds us of our collective vulnerability, our connection, our shared joys, passions, and loves.” @Poet_Major discusses his new role @slowdownshow with Julia Mallory. Read more of the Q&A: at.pw.org/JacksonTheSlow…
This poem really resonated with me this morning...
I just want them to stop emailing. All of them. You. The bots. / I want the kids to stop whining, the floor / to sweep itself, the sun to rise blamelessly / into the sky. Today’s poem is “The “I Want” Song” by @rbjrichardson bit.ly/3MFs5vp
Thank you @Poet_Major for sending out this poem into our digital vortex! 🥰
I just want them to stop emailing. All of them. You. The bots. / I want the kids to stop whining, the floor / to sweep itself, the sun to rise blamelessly / into the sky. Today’s poem is “The “I Want” Song” by @rbjrichardson bit.ly/3MFs5vp
Oh hey, here I am! Happy Poetry Month from the vortex of digital information.
“Today’s deeply relatable poem articulates the frustrations of living in this modern age, how we exist in a vortex of digital information that potentially wipes out any notion of free will.” Today’s poem is “The “I Want” Song” by @rbjrichardson bit.ly/3MFs5vp
"I want to become the fog..."
I just want them to stop emailing. All of them. You. The bots. / I want the kids to stop whining, the floor / to sweep itself, the sun to rise blamelessly / into the sky. Today’s poem is “The “I Want” Song” by @rbjrichardson bit.ly/3MFs5vp
"and what transpired back and forth / between her resigned chin and his optimistic gaze in that / moment—" This breathless poem suspended in witnessing by @Pscripturient is rendered devastating in @Poet_Major's voice at @slowdownshow. Read / Listen: tinyurl.com/3u3fs5ur
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