Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

By Matvei Yankelevich 

By William Matthews 

By Robert Duncan 

By Carl Sandburg 

Today’s poem is The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Poetry has a way of collapsing time, and by working the senses, having us experience an era. In the blues rhythms of Langston Hughes’ poetry, I hear e ... Show More

Dr Anne Casey, a poet and writer teaches us the joy of poetry. 

By Danusha Laméris 

By Delmore Schwartz 

By Matthew Zapruder 

By William J. Harris