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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1154: Selfsame River Thrice by Alicia Mountain
1153: Illumination by Natasha Trethewey
1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge
1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero
1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio
1149: Agony's Rasp by Garous Abdolmalekian, translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
1148: Urine Season by Niina Pollari
1147: A Book of Music by Jack Spicer
1146: Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong
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
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