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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Today’s poem is this is a library by Asiya Wadud. This episode was originally released on July 26, 2023.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s empathetic poem, which takes the tone of an elementary school primer, encourages a greater noticing of those who are leastwise among us, who fall outside the social fabric of our care. In doing so, hopefully, we might reverse prevailing attitudes toward the unhoused, who often are the target of violence and intolerance.”
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0:41.8 | We're taking a break this week, |
0:43.2 | so we're running some of our favorite episodes from this season so far. |
0:47.2 | We'll be back on October 9th with new episodes. |
0:50.4 | I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. |
1:01.4 | Last year, as part of a summer writer's conference in California, |
1:15.0 | I gave a poetry reading in an outdoor pavilion at a community college. |
1:21.0 | Afterward, I signed books and talked with attendees |
1:25.0 | from senior citizens to high school students. |
1:28.6 | Everyone was in good spirits. |
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