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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

[encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Song by Charif Shanahan.


The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we’re going back into the archive to revisit Ada Limón’s time as host. Today’s episode was originally released on September 12, 2022.


In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “When I am really writing, really working on poems, which is often as alive as I ever feel, as present as I ever feel, I am not just speaking to the world... I am listening to it. Listening to my body, my blood, my ever-changing pulse that slows and quickens depending on the emotionality of the subject.”


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1:00.0

Hey, it's me, Major Jackson.

1:02.6

We're reaching into the archive to bring you some of our favorites.

1:06.4

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

1:10.1

Her thoughtfulness and deep love of poetry made her time on the show very special. I hope you enjoy this selection from the archives.

1:23.6

I'm Ada Limon, and this is the slowdown.

1:28.7

Have you ever heard poets talk about voice or use the phrase, I just need to find my voice, or something

1:46.8

like that? It's a concept that's talked a lot about in graduate programs and in craft seminars.

1:53.6

Although I've heard about it throughout my life as a poet, I still sometimes wonder what it means.

1:59.9

For me, the voice of a poem is the voice underneath

2:03.7

whatever the speaker is saying, the place that is both the writer and not the writer. That's the

2:11.0

only way I can describe it because that's how it happens to me. When I am really writing, really working on poems, which is often as alive as I ever feel,

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