Today’s poem is You & the Donkey Cart by Rosa Alcalá. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, we’re sharing listener stories from the Twin Cities Book...

Today’s poem is To The Stone-Cutters by Robinson Jeffers. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, we’re sharing listener stories from the Twin Cities Book Festival. In...

Today’s poem is After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On by Joy Sullivan. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. This week, we’re sharing listener stories from...

Today’s poem is Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “In today’s poem, I hear a shared melancholy,...

Today’s poem is Mixed Marriage by Nick Laird. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Some days, we bicker, nothing major (pun intended). Often,...

Today’s poem is from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem inhabits the breathlessness...

Today’s poem is Ode to Badminton by Prageeta Sharma. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “If it were up to me, everything I...

Today’s poem is By Then by David Rivard. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I love the clarity in today’s poem, in how...

Today’s poem is The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “When a performer brings...