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into the archive to bring you some of our favorites.

Here's one from Ada Limon's tenure as host.

Her thoughtfulness and deep love of poetry made her time on the show very special.

I hope you enjoy this selection from the archives.

Oh. you enjoy this selection from the archives. I'm Ada Limon, and this is The Slowdown.

I often worry about what my loved ones think when I write a poem about them.

If it's personal, I ask permission, and almost always writing a poem is a way of honoring them.

Still, it must be so strange to think, oh, Ada's going to try to turn this

into a poem. It's true. As a writer, everything feels like material. The family sang,

the name of the street I grew up on, the ex-lover with a yellow motorcycle. It's not that we're mining for

poetic fodder as writers. It's that what is happening to us is igniting all the synapses,

and we can't help but be curious as to what it means. In today's gorgeous poem of honoring,

we see how the speaker transforms the story of her mother's illness

into something that feels like an offering.

Sometimes the job of the poet is simply to listen,

and sometimes it is to become the unburied voice.

Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg

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