The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s compelling poem honors the ancient and indomitable essence of human beings who continue on even in the face of tragedy, who crossover into the perfect fullness of their truth and emotions.”
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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
1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore
1179: Nude by James Kelly Quigley
1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley
1177: Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez
1176: Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian
1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon
1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye
1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim
1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
1170: The Way by Cynthia Cruz
1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young
1168: Refusing Rilke's “You must change your life” by Remica Bingham-Risher
1167: Transfusion by Shara Lessley
1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts
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