1326: The Slowdown Live

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Today’s episode was recorded live onstage at The Crawford in Pasadena, in partnership with our friends at LAist. Listen to hear conversation, poems, and some fun and games with our host Major Jackson and our guests Pádraig ÓTuama, Samiya Bashir, and Jason Schneiderman.

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0:00.0	Today we are bringing you a special episode,
0:04.3	an evening of conversation, poetry, and some fun.
0:09.6	Tape live in Los Angeles at the Crawford,
0:12.8	in partnership with our friends at LAist.
0:15.8	We hope you enjoy the Slowdown Live.
0:34.8	Thank you. enjoy The Slowdown Live. Welcome to the Slowdown Live. Are you happy to be here? How are y'all doing? This is being recorded, so you have to be loud. Everybody's good? Yeah, that's good to know. Fantastic. Look, this is going to be an amazing night. This is going to be one for the books.
0:56.8	There's no, some of you are here for AWP. Can I see my AWP fans here? Good, fantastic. And some of you
1:05.0	are fans of LAS. Yeah? And I'm going to bet all of you are fans of poetry.
1:13.9	Two hands up on that.
1:16.0	Thank you.
1:17.4	Thank you.
1:18.1	Okay.
1:18.3	I will be joined tonight by some of my favorite poets and your favorite poets.
1:25.3	And we are going to, well, slow down. We need some conversation right now.
1:32.3	We need some being with each other right now. But most of all, we need fun. And poetry and fun,
1:39.6	believe it or not, they do go together. So I'm going to start off with a poem, and I'm feeling an enormous
1:48.3	amount of gratitude right now. And so I'm going to read this poem. Anyone know the poem to express
1:54.5	gratitude? The ode. O-D-E. So I'm going to read an ode.
2:01.6	And a friend of mine, he told me, Major, you haven't written any odes yet.
2:06.6	I was like, you're right.
2:08.6	You must write an ode.
2:10.6	Now, the thing with an ode is, it has to be an ode to something that no one has thought before.
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