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THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. Poems for children, from The Poetry Foundation: Some of The Slowdown team’s favorites include I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ostrich and Lark by Marilyn Nelson, and Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye.. For more resources for introducing children to poetry, including poems, click here. Poems for teens, from The Poetry Foundation:430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more.311: LISTEN,
Today's poem is Listen, by Barbara Crooker. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions.25: THE STAR MARKET
Today's poem is The Star Market by Marie Howe. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Today's poem is Once In A Lifetime, Snow by Les Murray. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 389: KISSING THE OPELU Today's poem is Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō Colleps. 45: SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SYLVIA PLATH’S BRAID Today's poem is Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath's Braid by DianeSeuss.
THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. Poems for children, from The Poetry Foundation: Some of The Slowdown team’s favorites include I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ostrich and Lark by Marilyn Nelson, and Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye.. For more resources for introducing children to poetry, including poems, click here. Poems for teens, from The Poetry Foundation:430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more.311: LISTEN,
Today's poem is Listen, by Barbara Crooker. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions.25: THE STAR MARKET
Today's poem is The Star Market by Marie Howe. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Today's poem is Once In A Lifetime, Snow by Les Murray. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 389: KISSING THE OPELU Today's poem is Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō Colleps. 45: SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SYLVIA PLATH’S BRAID Today's poem is Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath's Braid by DianeSeuss.
ALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryTHE SLOWDOWN
Tracy K. Smith is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. She served as the 22nd United States Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019, and is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light and several books of poetry, including her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars.She is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and hosts The Slowdown.ALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. Poems for children, from The Poetry Foundation: Some of The Slowdown team’s favorites include I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ostrich and Lark by Marilyn Nelson, and Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye.. For more resources for introducing children to poetry, including poems, click here. Poems for teens, from The Poetry Foundation:124: THE BREAK
Today's poem is the break by Nate Marshall. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions.28: ON KINDNESS
Read an automated transcript. On Kindness. by Aracelis Girmay after Nazim Hikmet, for & after Rassan At the Detroit Metro Airport with the turtle-hours to spare between now & my flight, there is such a thing as the kindness of the conveyor belt who lends me its slow, strange mollusk foot as I stand quiet, exhausted, having been alone in my bed for days now, sleeping in hotels, having spent270: WHEN I AM SIX
Today's poem is When I Am Six by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 223: SORROWS BY LUCILLE CLIFTON Today's poem is sorrows by Lucille Clifton. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 263: HER DAUGHTER'S EYES Today's poem is Her Daughter's Eyes by Luci Tapahonso. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 367: AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS OF FEAR AND RAGING IN MY POEMS Today's poem is After all those years of fear and raging in my poemsby Toi Derricotte.
THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play. CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 223: SORROWS BY LUCILLE CLIFTON that they would attach themselves. as scars attach and ride the skin. sometimes we hear them in our dreams. rattling their skulls clicking their bony fingers. envying our crackling hair. our spice filled flesh. they have heard me beseeching. as I whispered into 289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play. CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 223: SORROWS BY LUCILLE CLIFTON that they would attach themselves. as scars attach and ride the skin. sometimes we hear them in our dreams. rattling their skulls clicking their bony fingers. envying our crackling hair. our spice filled flesh. they have heard me beseeching. as I whispered into 289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
422: THE END OF SCIENCE FICTION Today's episode is The End of Science Fiction by Lisel Mueller.351: FISH HEADS
351: Fish Heads. Fish Heads. by R.A. Villanueva. Read the automated transcript. Yanked free at the gills from cartilage and spine, these fish heads my mother cleans, whose bodies she scales, throws. all into salt water and crushed tamarind. At dinner she488: BEDTIME STORY
Today's poem is Bedtime Story by Wanda Coleman. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions.270: WHEN I AM SIX
I am six, my sister is five & we hide inside clothing racks at the store just to feel the black-sick fill our round bellies when we get lost, lost, lost from our mother. I am six & I am laughing with a mouthful of cashews. I think nuts is the funniest word I have ever heard. I am six & I break all of my mother’s lipsticks & glue themtogether
484: LETTER TO THE LOCAL POLICE Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan. Read an automated transcript. Dear Sirs: I have been enjoying the law and order of our community throughout the past three months since my wife and I, our two cats, and miscellaneous photographs of the six grandchildren belonging to our previous neighbors (with whom we were very close) arrived in Saratoga Springs which is clearly prospering 473: AQUÍ HAY TODO, MIJA Read an automated transcript AQUÍ HAY TODO, MIJA by Alexis Aceves Garcia. National City, 2019 i open the screen door slowly n wait for Abuela n her red walker to begin the procession from the back door out to the street ay, mis rodillas vines wrap around the wooden deck n reach to steady whatever cartilage is left in her knees down the ramp she stops near the lemon trees there are more 199: SMALL KINDNESSES 199: Small Kindnesses. Small Kindnesses. by Danusha Laméris. Read the automated transcript. I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk. down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs. to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”. when someone sneezes, aleftover.
263: HER DAUGHTER'S EYES when the red tail lights faded into the horizon. she started west to home. on a narrow, rough road. Leona was left alone in the summer desert. never, never again, she said. gritting her teeth. She might have forgotten that night except that. her daughter had 220: THROUGH A GLASS THROUGH WHICH WE CANNOT SEE Through a Glass Through Which We Cannot Seeby Lo Kwa Mei-en. Read the automated transcript. ourselves, a dead star is the only luminary. around for years. We see it a temple, then. sack it. I needed something, so I sang it. O my Jupiter, magnetic war-dreamer who still. swings by & low— I couldn’t wear my red, red.THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play. CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
192: THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT 192: The Death of an Elephant. Read the automated transcript. came to sniff. around her. a Dagon come tumbling down. and learning of death. tried to lift her with a roar. He moved to her head and tried to lifther. to lift her.
THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play. CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
192: THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT 192: The Death of an Elephant. Read the automated transcript. came to sniff. around her. a Dagon come tumbling down. and learning of death. tried to lift her with a roar. He moved to her head and tried to lifther. to lift her.
289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
351: FISH HEADS
351: Fish Heads. Fish Heads. by R.A. Villanueva. Read the automated transcript. Yanked free at the gills from cartilage and spine, these fish heads my mother cleans, whose bodies she scales, throws. all into salt water and crushed tamarind. At dinner she488: BEDTIME STORY
Today's poem is Bedtime Story by Wanda Coleman. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 484: LETTER TO THE LOCAL POLICE Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan. Read an automated transcript. Dear Sirs: I have been enjoying the law and order of our community throughout the past three months since my wife and I, our two cats, and miscellaneous photographs of the six grandchildren belonging to our previous neighbors (with whom we were very close) arrived in Saratoga Springs which is clearly prospering 199: SMALL KINDNESSES 199: Small Kindnesses. Small Kindnesses. by Danusha Laméris. Read the automated transcript. I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk. down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs. to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”. when someone sneezes, aleftover.
313: ABEYANCE
Abeyance by Rebecca Foust. Read the automated transcript. letter to my transgender daughter I made soup tonight, with cabbage, chard and thyme picked outside our back door. For this moment the room is warm and light, and I can presume you safe somewhere. I 263: HER DAUGHTER'S EYES when the red tail lights faded into the horizon. she started west to home. on a narrow, rough road. Leona was left alone in the summer desert. never, never again, she said. gritting her teeth. She might have forgotten that night except that. her daughter had 331: "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MARVELOUS GOD" Today's poem is "Let me tell you about my marvelous god" by SusanStewart.
220: THROUGH A GLASS THROUGH WHICH WE CANNOT SEE The sofa would make no amends for being an altar. sky with the shape of a young woman’s bark. away. Made a gun of two fingers & a thumb, jerked. to the throat, hunting & hunting & turning in the dark. & O bright star of disaster, I have been lit. "Through a Glass Through Which We Cannot See" by Lo Kwa Mei-en, from YEARLING by Lo Kwa Mei-en 110: WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR Today's poem is We Lived Happily During The War by Ilya Kaminsky.THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play. CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
192: THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT 192: The Death of an Elephant. Read the automated transcript. came to sniff. around her. a Dagon come tumbling down. and learning of death. tried to lift her with a roar. He moved to her head and tried to lifther. to lift her.
THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play. CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
192: THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT 192: The Death of an Elephant. Read the automated transcript. came to sniff. around her. a Dagon come tumbling down. and learning of death. tried to lift her with a roar. He moved to her head and tried to lifther. to lift her.
289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
351: FISH HEADS
351: Fish Heads. Fish Heads. by R.A. Villanueva. Read the automated transcript. Yanked free at the gills from cartilage and spine, these fish heads my mother cleans, whose bodies she scales, throws. all into salt water and crushed tamarind. At dinner she488: BEDTIME STORY
Today's poem is Bedtime Story by Wanda Coleman. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions. 484: LETTER TO THE LOCAL POLICE Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan. Read an automated transcript. Dear Sirs: I have been enjoying the law and order of our community throughout the past three months since my wife and I, our two cats, and miscellaneous photographs of the six grandchildren belonging to our previous neighbors (with whom we were very close) arrived in Saratoga Springs which is clearly prospering 199: SMALL KINDNESSES 199: Small Kindnesses. Small Kindnesses. by Danusha Laméris. Read the automated transcript. I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk. down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs. to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”. when someone sneezes, aleftover.
313: ABEYANCE
Abeyance by Rebecca Foust. Read the automated transcript. letter to my transgender daughter I made soup tonight, with cabbage, chard and thyme picked outside our back door. For this moment the room is warm and light, and I can presume you safe somewhere. I 263: HER DAUGHTER'S EYES when the red tail lights faded into the horizon. she started west to home. on a narrow, rough road. Leona was left alone in the summer desert. never, never again, she said. gritting her teeth. She might have forgotten that night except that. her daughter had 331: "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MARVELOUS GOD" Today's poem is "Let me tell you about my marvelous god" by SusanStewart.
220: THROUGH A GLASS THROUGH WHICH WE CANNOT SEE The sofa would make no amends for being an altar. sky with the shape of a young woman’s bark. away. Made a gun of two fingers & a thumb, jerked. to the throat, hunting & hunting & turning in the dark. & O bright star of disaster, I have been lit. "Through a Glass Through Which We Cannot See" by Lo Kwa Mei-en, from YEARLING by Lo Kwa Mei-en 110: WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR Today's poem is We Lived Happily During The War by Ilya Kaminsky.THE SLOWDOWN
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500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play.ALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
270: WHEN I AM SIX
I am six, my sister is five & we hide inside clothing racks at the store just to feel the black-sick fill our round bellies when we get lost, lost, lost from our mother. I am six & I am laughing with a mouthful of cashews. I think nuts is the funniest word I have ever heard. I am six & I break all of my mother’s lipsticks & glue themtogether
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500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play.ALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
270: WHEN I AM SIX
I am six, my sister is five & we hide inside clothing racks at the store just to feel the black-sick fill our round bellies when we get lost, lost, lost from our mother. I am six & I am laughing with a mouthful of cashews. I think nuts is the funniest word I have ever heard. I am six & I break all of my mother’s lipsticks & glue themtogether
CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
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The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry 333: IN DEFENSE OF SMALL TOWNS In Defense of Small Towns by Oliver de la Paz. Read the automated transcript. When I look at it, it’s simple, really. I hated life there. September, once filled with animal deaths and toughened hay. And the smells of fall were boiled-down beets and potatoes or the farmhands’ breeches smeared with oil and diesel as they rode into town, dusty and pissed. 407: AT THE AGE OF 18 Being a girl of color means I am key, path, and wonder all in one body. At the age of 18. I am experiencing how black and brown can glow. And glow I will, glow we will, vibrantly, colorfully; not as a warning, but as promise, that we will set the sky alight with our magic. "At the Age of 18 - Ode to Girls of Color," by Amanda Gorman,copyright
289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
351: FISH HEADS
351: Fish Heads. Fish Heads. by R.A. Villanueva. Read the automated transcript. Yanked free at the gills from cartilage and spine, these fish heads my mother cleans, whose bodies she scales, throws. all into salt water and crushed tamarind. At dinner she 387: STOP LOOKING AT MY LAST NAME LIKE THAT Today's poem is Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by MichaelTorres.
464: CHANCE MEETING
464: Chance Meeting. Chance Meeting. by Susan Browne. Read the automated transcript. I know him, that man walking- toward me up the crowded street of the city, I have lived with him seven years now, I know his fast stride, his windy wheatfield hair, his hands thrust deep in his jacket pockets, hands that have known my body, touched itssoftest
331: "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MARVELOUS GOD" Today's poem is "Let me tell you about my marvelous god" by SusanStewart.
92: ALWAYS ALONE
Today's poem is Always Alone by Linda Gregg. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions.THE SLOWDOWN
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500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play.ALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
270: WHEN I AM SIX
I am six, my sister is five & we hide inside clothing racks at the store just to feel the black-sick fill our round bellies when we get lost, lost, lost from our mother. I am six & I am laughing with a mouthful of cashews. I think nuts is the funniest word I have ever heard. I am six & I break all of my mother’s lipsticks & glue themtogether
THE SLOWDOWN
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetryALL EPISODES
500: The Party. October 23, 2020. Today's poem is The Party by Jason Shinder. This episode originally aired May 1, 2020. Play.ALL EPISODES
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
430: FISH HEADS
Today's poem is Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva. This episode originally aired on March 30, 2020. This week, we’re featuring poems about food and all the many ways it sustains us. Because food is community and memory. It’s struggle, joy, and so much more. 388: ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SNOW Once In A Lifetime, Snow. by Les Murray. Winters at home brought wind, black frost and raw. grey rain in barbed-wire fields, but never more.until
311: LISTEN,
311: Listen, Read the automated transcript. I want to tell you something. This morning. peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I want to say, ahead, a field of blankness, a sheet of paper, an empty screen. tiny violins of longing and desire. We were made for song. 389: KISSING THE OPELU 389: Kissing the Opelu. I am water, only because you are the ocean. because old leaves have been falling. into buried hands. The cliffs we learn to edge. The tree trunk hollowed, humming. you are the body planting stories with thumb. Soil crumbs cling to25: THE STAR MARKET
by Marie Howe. The people Jesus loved were shopping at The Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout. breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps. Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and. hawkinginto his hand.
270: WHEN I AM SIX
I am six, my sister is five & we hide inside clothing racks at the store just to feel the black-sick fill our round bellies when we get lost, lost, lost from our mother. I am six & I am laughing with a mouthful of cashews. I think nuts is the funniest word I have ever heard. I am six & I break all of my mother’s lipsticks & glue themtogether
CURIOUS ABOUT POETRY? START HERE. The Slowdown team. A poem holds a note, or series of notes. For a short time, everything else falls away. We don’t have to understand exactly what the poem is saying, but what is conjured may be beyond understanding. It’s a scene, an image, a voice, a remembrance, a banquet, a bouquet, a penetrating vision, a necklace of glimmers, ajoyous
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The Slowdown podcast hosted by Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry 333: IN DEFENSE OF SMALL TOWNS In Defense of Small Towns by Oliver de la Paz. Read the automated transcript. When I look at it, it’s simple, really. I hated life there. September, once filled with animal deaths and toughened hay. And the smells of fall were boiled-down beets and potatoes or the farmhands’ breeches smeared with oil and diesel as they rode into town, dusty and pissed. 407: AT THE AGE OF 18 Being a girl of color means I am key, path, and wonder all in one body. At the age of 18. I am experiencing how black and brown can glow. And glow I will, glow we will, vibrantly, colorfully; not as a warning, but as promise, that we will set the sky alight with our magic. "At the Age of 18 - Ode to Girls of Color," by Amanda Gorman,copyright
289: THE TRAVELING ONION 289: The Traveling Onion. Read the automated transcript. “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship —why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all ofEurope.”. —
351: FISH HEADS
351: Fish Heads. Fish Heads. by R.A. Villanueva. Read the automated transcript. Yanked free at the gills from cartilage and spine, these fish heads my mother cleans, whose bodies she scales, throws. all into salt water and crushed tamarind. At dinner she 387: STOP LOOKING AT MY LAST NAME LIKE THAT Today's poem is Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by MichaelTorres.
464: CHANCE MEETING
464: Chance Meeting. Chance Meeting. by Susan Browne. Read the automated transcript. I know him, that man walking- toward me up the crowded street of the city, I have lived with him seven years now, I know his fast stride, his windy wheatfield hair, his hands thrust deep in his jacket pockets, hands that have known my body, touched itssoftest
331: "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MARVELOUS GOD" Today's poem is "Let me tell you about my marvelous god" by SusanStewart.
92: ALWAYS ALONE
Today's poem is Always Alone by Linda Gregg. Get a poem handpicked by Tracy K. Smith every weekday. The email includes an abridged version of Tracy’s introductions.Menu
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