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Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday. Produced by APM Studios in partnership with The Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Make us a part of your routine as you drink coffee in the morning, as you take a walk in nature, or as you wind down to go to sleep in the evening. With host Major Jackson, we collectively take a moment to calm, to inspire, to learn, and to engage with the best emerging poets and established writers of our time and generations past, from Emily Dickinson to Danez Smith, from Amanda Gorman to Mary Oliver.

Listen to our back catalog for episodes by our previous hosts, Tracy K. Smith and Ada Limón, as well as guest hosts Jenny Xie, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tina Chang, Nate Marshall, Shira Erlichiman, and Jason Schneiderman. Our hosts and production team select poems that move them, and we hope they move you, too.

Episode Date
1263: Film Theory by Xan Forest Phillips
Dec 18, 2024
1262: The Future of Terror / 1 by Matthea Harvey
Dec 17, 2024
1261: Immersive by Joseph Millar
Dec 16, 2024
1260: Fade Away by Amorak Huey
Dec 13, 2024
1259: When you have to kill everybody in the room by Niki Herd
Dec 12, 2024
1258: The Trees by Jericho Brown
Dec 11, 2024
1257: Time || Immemorial by Daniel Simon
Dec 10, 2024
1256: A Dominican Poem by Danielle Legros Georges
Dec 09, 2024
1255: The Presence in Absence by Linda Gregg
Dec 06, 2024
1254: That's My Heart Right There by Willie Perdomo
Dec 05, 2024
1253: On the Death of a Young Lady Five Years of Age, a reinscription by Aracelis Girmay
Dec 04, 2024
1252: The Canonization by John Donne
Dec 03, 2024
1251: On Living by Nâzim Hikmet, translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Dec 02, 2024
1250: 52 Blue by Sappho Stanley
Nov 29, 2024
1249: Farmers' Market by Molly Fisk
Nov 28, 2024
1248: Listening to Monk's Misterioso I Remember Braiding My Sisters' Hair by Christopher Gilbert
Nov 27, 2024
1247: A Garden and a Street by Teresa Cader
Nov 26, 2024
1246: Big Purple Peonies by Margaret Ross
Nov 25, 2024
1245: Telescope by Louise Glück
Nov 22, 2024
1244: Poem by Frank O'Hara
Nov 21, 2024
1243: Waiting for the Annular Eclipse by Rhoni Blankenhorn
Nov 20, 2024
1242: Aleppo by Hala Alyan
Nov 19, 2024
1241: Brooklyn is for Breakups by Chen Chen
Nov 18, 2024
1240: Mother of the English Language by Nicole Arocho Hernández
Nov 15, 2024
1239: My Father Flying by Jan Beatty
Nov 14, 2024
1238: Forgiveness Rock Record by Tawanda Mulalu
Nov 13, 2024
1237: Shadow Play by Jessica Fisher
Nov 12, 2024
1236: Letter to a Young Poet by Megan Fernandes
Nov 11, 2024
1235: On Being by Ruben Quesada
Nov 08, 2024
1234: Mami Told Me to Put Water under the Bed by Peggy Robles-Alvarado
Nov 07, 2024
1233: Trans Loneliness by Rickey Laurentiis
Nov 06, 2024
1232: A House Called Tomorrow by Alberto Ríos
Nov 05, 2024
1231: Gala Noise by Diane Mehta
Nov 04, 2024
1230: Second Paradise by Chard deNiord
Nov 01, 2024
1229: Refugia by Traci Brimhall
Oct 31, 2024
1228: Shelf Life by Nathan Xavier Osorio
Oct 30, 2024
1227: Genetics by Sinead Morrissey
Oct 29, 2024
1226: The Devouring Economy of Nature by Daniel Borzutzky
Oct 28, 2024
1225: After Vallejo by A.B. Spellman
Oct 25, 2024
1224: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel
Oct 24, 2024
1223: Between You and You by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
Oct 23, 2024
1222: Post- by Corey Van Landingham
Oct 22, 2024
1221: Home Movies: A Sort of Ode by Mary Jo Salter
Oct 21, 2024
1220: Taking Stock by Elaine Equi
Oct 18, 2024
1219: from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell
Oct 17, 2024
1218: Vulture by Ted Kooser
Oct 16, 2024
1217: Abide by Jake Adam York
Oct 15, 2024
1216: oracle by Duriel E. Harris
Oct 14, 2024
1215: The Clearing by Jane Kenyon
Oct 11, 2024
1214: Grading Rubric by Antonio de Jesús López
Oct 10, 2024
1213: Pacific Power & Light by Michael Dickman
Oct 09, 2024
1212: Eureka! by Jessica Abughattas
Oct 08, 2024
1211: The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert
Oct 07, 2024
1210: Negro Hero (to Suggest Dorie Miller) by Gwendolyn Brooks
Oct 04, 2024
1209: Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Oct 03, 2024
1208: Gravelly Run by A. R. Ammons
Oct 02, 2024
1207: from "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams
Oct 01, 2024
1206: Birches by Robert Frost
Sep 30, 2024
1205: Leaving by Madeleine Cravens
Sep 27, 2024
1204: The Joseph Cornell App by David Roderick
Sep 26, 2024
1203: This Living by Amber Tamblyn
Sep 25, 2024
1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin
Sep 24, 2024
1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh
Sep 23, 2024
1200: Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin
Sep 20, 2024
1199: Homo naledi by Sara Borjas
Sep 19, 2024
1198: The Big People by César Vallejo, translated by James Wright
Sep 18, 2024
1197: March, the Garden by Chera Hammons
Sep 17, 2024
1196: A Conversation between Women by Jennifer Chang
Sep 16, 2024
[encore] 1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama
Sep 13, 2024
[encore] 1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black
Sep 12, 2024
[encore] 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Sep 11, 2024
[encore] 926: from "The Garden of Limbs" by Cristina Pérez Díaz
Sep 10, 2024
[encore] 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith
Sep 09, 2024
[encore] 1125: English by Janel Pineda
Sep 06, 2024
[encore] 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
Sep 05, 2024
[encore] 932: Letter to my sister by Trapeta B. Mayson
Sep 04, 2024
[encore] 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
Sep 03, 2024
[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sep 02, 2024
1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
Aug 30, 2024
1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
Aug 29, 2024
1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
Aug 28, 2024
1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
Aug 27, 2024
1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Aug 26, 2024
1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
Aug 23, 2024
1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer
Aug 22, 2024
1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
Aug 21, 2024
1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin
Aug 20, 2024
1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas
Aug 19, 2024
1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
Aug 16, 2024
1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Aug 15, 2024
1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
Aug 14, 2024
1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
Aug 13, 2024
1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri
Aug 12, 2024
1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore
Aug 09, 2024
1179: Nude by James Kelly Quigley
Aug 08, 2024
1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley
Aug 07, 2024
1177: Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez
Aug 06, 2024
1176: Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian
Aug 05, 2024
1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon
Aug 02, 2024
1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye
Aug 01, 2024
1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim
Jul 31, 2024
1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
Jul 30, 2024
1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Jul 29, 2024
1170: The Way by Cynthia Cruz
Jul 26, 2024
1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young
Jul 25, 2024
1168: Refusing Rilke's “You must change your life” by Remica Bingham-Risher
Jul 24, 2024
1167: Transfusion by Shara Lessley
Jul 23, 2024
1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts
Jul 22, 2024
1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama
Jul 19, 2024
1164: Act of Gratitude by Cyrus Cassells
Jul 18, 2024
1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi
Jul 17, 2024
1162: But Beautiful by Rodney Terich Leonard
Jul 16, 2024
1161: Each Morning Again by Rose McLarney
Jul 15, 2024
1160: Naïve by Tim Seibles
Jul 12, 2024
1159: We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers by Diannely Antigua
Jul 11, 2024
1158: A Blessing by Samyak Shertok
Jul 10, 2024
1157: from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
Jul 09, 2024
1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez
Jul 08, 2024
1155: A Toast by Oksana Zabuzhko
Jul 05, 2024
1154: Selfsame River Thrice by Alicia Mountain
Jul 04, 2024
1153: Illumination by Natasha Trethewey
Jul 03, 2024
1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge
Jul 02, 2024
1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero
Jul 01, 2024
1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio
Jun 28, 2024
1149: Agony's Rasp by Garous Abdolmalekian, translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
Jun 27, 2024
1148: Urine Season by Niina Pollari
Jun 26, 2024
1147: A Book of Music by Jack Spicer
Jun 25, 2024
1146: Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong
Jun 24, 2024
1145: Love Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator by Alisha Dietzman
Jun 21, 2024
1144: Horse by TR Brady
Jun 20, 2024
1143: Screenplay by Harryette Mullen
Jun 19, 2024
1142: Hyperacusis by Santee Frazier
Jun 18, 2024
1141: When I Was in My Early Thirties I Saw Elton John in a Nightclub in Atlanta Called Tongue and Groove by Khadijah Queen
Jun 17, 2024
1140: Fish, Serpent, Egg, Scorpion by Kwame Dawes
Jun 14, 2024
1139: Dolly Would by Julie E. Bloemeke
Jun 13, 2024
1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Jun 12, 2024
1137: i have an irrational fear of spiders by Charlie Getter
Jun 11, 2024
1136: Visible Light by Heidi Seaborn
Jun 10, 2024
1135: At the Rainbow Cattle Company by Bruce Snider
Jun 07, 2024
1134: Americans by Katie Peterson
Jun 06, 2024
1133: The Alien by Greg Delanty
Jun 05, 2024
1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant
Jun 04, 2024
1131: How It Will End by Denise Duhamel
Jun 03, 2024
1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta
May 31, 2024
1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess
May 30, 2024
1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal
May 29, 2024
1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas
May 28, 2024
1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson
May 27, 2024
1125: English by Janel Pineda
May 24, 2024
1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson
May 23, 2024
1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay
May 22, 2024
1122: Childhood by David Baker
May 21, 2024
1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis
May 20, 2024
1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller
May 17, 2024
1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White
May 16, 2024
1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona
May 15, 2024
1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
May 14, 2024
1116: Mercy by Dessa
May 13, 2024
1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza
May 10, 2024
1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky
May 09, 2024
1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi
May 08, 2024
1112: Sl(e)ight by Alice White
May 07, 2024
1111: The Nation by Roy Fisher
May 06, 2024
1110: Blue Hour by Chanda Feldman
May 03, 2024
1109: Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier
May 02, 2024
1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux
May 01, 2024
1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford
Apr 30, 2024
1106: Life In The Gush Of Boasts by Elijah Burrell
Apr 29, 2024
1105: Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral
Apr 26, 2024
1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander
Apr 25, 2024
1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith
Apr 24, 2024
1102: How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook
Apr 23, 2024
1101: 1971 Pontiac LeMans by Thomas Bolt
Apr 22, 2024
1100: Ode to The Lone Star State by Jubi Arriola-Headley
Apr 19, 2024
1099: Something by Andrea Cohen
Apr 18, 2024
1098: Rant by Nathalie Anderson
Apr 17, 2024
1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike
Apr 16, 2024
1096: Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca, translated by Merryn Williams
Apr 15, 2024
1095: Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky
Apr 12, 2024
1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch
Apr 11, 2024
1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon
Apr 10, 2024
1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah
Apr 09, 2024
1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield
Apr 08, 2024
1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker
Apr 05, 2024
1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández
Apr 04, 2024
1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo
Apr 03, 2024
1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist
Apr 02, 2024
1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet
Apr 01, 2024
1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze
Mar 29, 2024
1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah
Mar 28, 2024
1083: first person by Ed Roberson
Mar 27, 2024
1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe
Mar 26, 2024
1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Mar 25, 2024
1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
Mar 22, 2024
1079: Cassandra by Sasha West
Mar 21, 2024
1078: Ferment by Monica Rico
Mar 20, 2024
1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn
Mar 19, 2024
1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart
Mar 18, 2024
1075: Translation by Anne Spencer
Mar 15, 2024
1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard
Mar 14, 2024
1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein
Mar 13, 2024
1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur
Mar 12, 2024
1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter
Mar 11, 2024
1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross
Mar 08, 2024
1069: An Exchange by Corey Marks
Mar 07, 2024
1068: Fish Pier, Santa Monica by Vernon Duke
Mar 06, 2024
1067: blues-elegy for cheryl by Evie Shockley
Mar 05, 2024
1066: Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon
Mar 04, 2024
1065: First of March by Stacie Cassarino
Mar 01, 2024
1064: Dry Spell by Lisa Sewell
Feb 29, 2024
1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black
Feb 28, 2024
1062: A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman
Feb 27, 2024
1061: Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy
Feb 26, 2024
[encore] 996: Portable Paradise
Feb 23, 2024
[encore] 1008: Kinds of Silence
Feb 22, 2024
[encore] 923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé
Feb 21, 2024
[encore] 990: Feeding the Koi
Feb 20, 2024
[encore] 929: this is a library
Feb 19, 2024
[encore] 966: Love Poem, with Birds
Feb 16, 2024
[encore] 955: Love Sits by My Father
Feb 15, 2024
[encore] 807: Short Essay on Love
Feb 14, 2024
[encore] 1003: Without Name
Feb 13, 2024
[encore] 917: Love and the Deli Counter
Feb 12, 2024
1060: Perhaps
Feb 09, 2024
1059: Love and the Moon
Feb 08, 2024
1058: The Dangers of Contemplation
Feb 07, 2024
1057: Facebook Status
Feb 06, 2024
1056: Ghazal for Mothers & Tongues
Feb 05, 2024
1055: Dancing at The Get Down by Cat Wei
Feb 02, 2024
1054: Hunger
Feb 01, 2024
1053: Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World
Jan 31, 2024
1052: Body's Ken
Jan 30, 2024
1051: Venus's Flytraps
Jan 29, 2024
1050: To The Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
Jan 26, 2024
1049: [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] or Daffodils
Jan 25, 2024
1048: You & the Donkey Cart
Jan 24, 2024
1047: To The Stone-Cutters
Jan 23, 2024
1046: After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On
Jan 22, 2024
1045: Sonnet for Ochún
Jan 19, 2024
1044: Mixed Marriage
Jan 18, 2024
1043: from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad
Jan 17, 2024
1042: Ode to Badminton
Jan 16, 2024
1041: By Then
Jan 15, 2024
1040: The Idea of Order at Key West
Jan 12, 2024
1039: What Good Is Silence
Jan 11, 2024
[encore] 877: The Lifeline
Jan 10, 2024
1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
Jan 09, 2024
1037: An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers
Jan 08, 2024
1036: Pleasure
Jan 05, 2024
1035: The Darkling Thrush
Jan 04, 2024
1034: Cliché
Jan 03, 2024
1033: On Meeting My Biological Father
Jan 02, 2024
1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me
Jan 01, 2024
1031: Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear
Dec 29, 2023
1030: Fourth Wall Arpeggio
Dec 28, 2023
1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Dec 27, 2023
1028: Yet, the Loveliness
Dec 26, 2023
1027: The Memory of the Young
Dec 25, 2023
1026: Ode to Bones
Dec 22, 2023
1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World
Dec 21, 2023
1024: Ashes
Dec 20, 2023
1023: Hurrying Toward the Present
Dec 19, 2023
1022: Two Shadows
Dec 18, 2023
1021: Making Things
Dec 15, 2023
1020: Ithaka
Dec 14, 2023
1019: Ambition
Dec 13, 2023
1018: Cuffing Season
Dec 12, 2023
1017: Parallel Worlds
Dec 11, 2023
1016: In the Seam of Life
Dec 08, 2023
1015: Death Letter #2
Dec 07, 2023
1014: Date
Dec 06, 2023
1013: Reading Poetry in Illness
Dec 05, 2023
1012: Morning Glory
Dec 04, 2023
1011: Bloodroot
Dec 01, 2023
1010: Self-care Bucket List
Nov 30, 2023
1009: Teleology
Nov 29, 2023
1008: Kinds of Silence
Nov 28, 2023
1007: To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem
Nov 27, 2023
1006: Something Sweet
Nov 24, 2023
1005: eco-hood
Nov 23, 2023
1004: What to Do With the Hedges
Nov 22, 2023
1003: Without Name
Nov 21, 2023
1002: Secular and Inconsolable
Nov 20, 2023
1001: To the bartender who tends to more than just the bar
Nov 17, 2023
1000: I Hear America Singing
Nov 16, 2023
999: clap-on
Nov 15, 2023
998: A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
Nov 14, 2023
997: Letter to the Editor
Nov 13, 2023
996: A Portable Paradise
Nov 10, 2023
995: Dear—,
Nov 09, 2023
994: ACT! pose with fingers as though cigarette (puff puff)
Nov 08, 2023
993: Bundt Cake from Sam's Club
Nov 07, 2023
992: Imago
Nov 06, 2023
991: Googling Ourselves
Nov 03, 2023
990: Feeding the Koi
Nov 02, 2023
989: Signs, Music
Nov 01, 2023
988: Hillwood
Oct 31, 2023
987: Totalitarian
Oct 30, 2023
986: EGGSHELLS
Oct 27, 2023
985: Might Kindred
Oct 26, 2023
984: Poem at the Top of a Mountain
Oct 25, 2023
983: Things Haunt
Oct 24, 2023
982: Rain
Oct 23, 2023
981: Through a closed mouth the flies enter
Oct 20, 2023
980: Villanelle
Oct 19, 2023
979: The Listening World
Oct 18, 2023
978: And the Beautiful
Oct 17, 2023
977: sights and sounds on my way to you
Oct 16, 2023
976: Wonder Wheel
Oct 13, 2023
975: Love after Love
Oct 12, 2023
974: Did you want to come in?
Oct 11, 2023
973: Sword Swallowing Lessons
Oct 10, 2023
972: Light Upon The Body
Oct 09, 2023
[encore] 936: Voyeuristic Intentions
Oct 06, 2023
[encore] 929: this is a library
Oct 05, 2023
[encore] 909: My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail
Oct 04, 2023
[encore] 935: Happy Campus
Oct 03, 2023
[encore] 904: The Statues and Us
Oct 02, 2023
971: On Mars
Sep 29, 2023
970: Ungendered 2
Sep 28, 2023
969: Us
Sep 27, 2023
968: The Long Goodbye
Sep 26, 2023
967: Ode to Purple Summer
Sep 25, 2023
[encore] 806: Polycardial
Sep 22, 2023
[encore] 822: Cricket Song
Sep 21, 2023
[encore] 804: Foxglove
Sep 20, 2023
[encore] 870: Hymn to Church Basements
Sep 19, 2023
[encore] 812: September
Sep 18, 2023
966: Love Poem, with Birds
Sep 15, 2023
965: from "Excess Sonnets"
Sep 14, 2023
964: abundance of light
Sep 13, 2023
963: Frederick Douglass
Sep 12, 2023
962: Afternoon in Andalusia
Sep 11, 2023
961: Nocturne
Sep 08, 2023
960: I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)
Sep 07, 2023
959: On Earth
Sep 06, 2023
958: Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall
Sep 05, 2023
957: Rooms by the Sea
Sep 04, 2023
956: Hair
Sep 01, 2023
955: Love Sits by My Father
Aug 31, 2023
954: In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa
Aug 30, 2023
953: Two Photographs
Aug 29, 2023
952: Failed Essay on Privilege
Aug 28, 2023
951: I wanted music
Aug 25, 2023
950: from FIXER
Aug 24, 2023
949: Thirty-Fifth Year
Aug 23, 2023
948: Willing in the Orisha
Aug 22, 2023
947: Famous
Aug 21, 2023
946: Crackerbell
Aug 18, 2023
945: The Jungle
Aug 17, 2023
944: Sonnet written walking under the mess some magnolia made
Aug 16, 2023
943: The Dictator in Prison
Aug 15, 2023
942: Very Large Moth
Aug 14, 2023
941: After We Buried The Dog In The Dark
Aug 11, 2023
940: Survivor
Aug 10, 2023
939: A Guy in a Black SUV
Aug 09, 2023
938: Sorcery
Aug 08, 2023
937: While Shaving
Aug 07, 2023
936: Voyeuristic Intentions
Aug 04, 2023
935: Happy Campus
Aug 03, 2023
934: Labor Theory of Value
Aug 02, 2023
933: Penmanship
Aug 01, 2023
932: Letter to my sister
Jul 31, 2023
931: Epilogue
Jul 28, 2023
930: elegy for the moaner, 2016
Jul 27, 2023
929: this is a library
Jul 26, 2023
928: Prayer
Jul 25, 2023
927: Via Politica
Jul 24, 2023
926: from "The Garden of Limbs"
Jul 21, 2023
925: Country of Water
Jul 20, 2023
924: Theme for the nautical cowboy
Jul 19, 2023
923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé
Jul 18, 2023
922: Not It
Jul 17, 2023
921: Dear Red
Jul 14, 2023
920: Invented Landscape
Jul 13, 2023
919: Take This Poem
Jul 12, 2023
918: Vision from the Blue Plane-Window
Jul 11, 2023
917: Love and the Deli Counter
Jul 10, 2023
916: from "fabula: towards a black mirror”
Jul 07, 2023
915: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?
Jul 06, 2023
914: Voices of the Air
Jul 05, 2023
913: America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope
Jul 04, 2023
912: Poem
Jul 03, 2023
911: The Messenger
Jun 30, 2023
910: How Long Could I Have Been Weightless?
Jun 29, 2023
909: My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail
Jun 28, 2023
908: After the Farm was Sold to FedEx
Jun 27, 2023
907: A State of Permanent Visibility
Jun 26, 2023
906: Self-Portrait as Derivatives Trader
Jun 23, 2023
905: Voyeur
Jun 22, 2023
904: The Statues and Us
Jun 21, 2023
903: Boy Shooting at a Statue
Jun 20, 2023
902: Morning in a City
Jun 19, 2023
901: The Poet
Jun 16, 2023
900: In An Elevator with Ashbery, Crossing Stanzas, Bashfully
Jun 15, 2023
899: Areyto for the Shipwrecked: The Case for Spanglish
Jun 14, 2023
898: from THIRSTY
Jun 13, 2023
897: Emptying
Jun 12, 2023
896: Portrait of My Father With the Letter V
Jun 09, 2023