Episodes: 2025

Today’s poem is Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon.

Today’s poem is Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Today’s poem is Sono by Suji Kwock Kim.

Today’s poem is From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee.

Today’s poem is One Art by Elizabeth Bishop.

Today’s poem is Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann.

Today’s poem is Practicing by Ciona Rouse.

Today’s poem is Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké.

Today’s poem is Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez.

Today’s poem is Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko.

Today’s poem is To be of use by Marge Piercy.

Today’s poem is The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker.

Today’s poem is Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres.

Today’s poem is Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim.

Today’s poem is Moon Pull by Carlina Duan.

Today’s poem is Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau.

Today’s poem is Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander.

Today we’re bringing you the recording from Slow Take, our live event in Nashville this past April, featuring Major Jackson in conversation with Jad Abumrad and special guest poets Kate Daniels, Mark Jarman, Ciona Rouse and Didi Jackson, as well as singer-songwriter Tia Sillers.