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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1145: Love Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator by Alisha Dietzman
1144: Horse by TR Brady
1143: Screenplay by Harryette Mullen
1142: Hyperacusis by Santee Frazier
1141: When I Was in My Early Thirties I Saw Elton John in a Nightclub in Atlanta Called Tongue and Groove by Khadijah Queen
1140: Fish, Serpent, Egg, Scorpion by Kwame Dawes
1139: Dolly Would by Julie E. Bloemeke
1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok
1137: i have an irrational fear of spiders by Charlie Getter
1136: Visible Light by Heidi Seaborn
1135: At the Rainbow Cattle Company by Bruce Snider
1134: Americans by Katie Peterson
1133: The Alien by Greg Delanty
1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant
1131: How It Will End by Denise Duhamel
1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta
1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess
1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal
1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas
1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson
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