The Slowdown

A poem and a moment of reflection every weekday.

“A true break from the cacophony of life.”
- Alice Florence Orr from Podcast Review

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Today’s poem is On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

Today’s poem is The Canonization by John Donne.

Today’s poem is On Living by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk.

Raising poetry to a more visible and influential position in American culture.

Hear four poems curated by a few very special friends of The Slowdown.