Today’s poem is Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “This summer, I get to write in a castle in Italy at an artist retreat. I am hoping my assigned room is in a dungeon. Otherwise, I am afraid high ceilings will mean high windows,…

Today’s poem is 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem disentangles the quest for money, transactional desire, and lyric subjectivity. Its teasing interplay of language brings into close proximity art, social class, and manners of currency.” Celebrate the power of poems with a…

Today’s poem is When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I read all those articles that proclaim how lonely we are becoming; I believe there’s some truth to it. Here’s my fear: all my work is making me alien to myself and…

Today’s poem is Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem makes a profound commitment to carry the living and the dead in language forward into time, to record our presence, to meld the collectivity and richness of humanity into a singular vision that…

Today’s poem is To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Sometimes it is necessary to create our own stories and poems that account for our reality, for who we are, presently, in the 21st century. Our dreams and imagination serve as…

Today’s poem is My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes… “I admit, I spent much of my childhood imagining my future away from Michigan. But now, I only have positive memories of my childhood landscape. The Michigan landscape is my…

Today’s poem is The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes… “Today’s poem reminds me of how, under every tree that bears fruit, there are secret stories of desire, of loss, and of love.” Celebrate the power…

Today’s poem is Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes… “Today’s poem is an ode to the kitchen table and all the ways that a table holds everything in our lives — all the pain of the world, its…

Today’s poem is After She Died by Mary Szybist. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes… “As the years have gone by since my mother’s passing, since my father’s passing, something else has bloomed unexpectedly, which is a connection with others who have experienced deep loss. The…

Today’s poem is It’s This Way by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes… “I have begun to think that hope is a presentness, that perhaps hope is within the present, not the future, not in the subjunctive,…