Episodes: 2025

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.

Today’s poem is Us by Zaffar Kunial.

Today’s poem is from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge.

Today’s poem is I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall.

Today’s poem is anti-immigration by Evie Shockley.

Today’s poem is Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez.

Today’s poem is In Response to Feeling Alone by t. liem.

Today’s poem is Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg.

Today’s poem is Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado.

Today’s poem is The Feeling by Ari Banias.

Today’s poem is Telling My Father by James Crews.

Today’s poem is Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal by Kaveh Akbar.

Today’s poem is Listen, by Barbara Crooker.

Today’s poem is I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks.

Today’s poem is Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi.

Today’s poem is Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher.

Today’s poem is Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh.

Today’s poem is If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein.