The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is The Mothers by Jill Bialosky.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem beautifully captures those complex emotions of watching our children emerge into themselves — and its threat to our identity.”
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[encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda
[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson
[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer
1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin
1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas
1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri
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