“Today's poem is a French classic, one that countless schoolchildren have learned to recite over the decades. It strings us together in a song of feeling, a song of remembering,” shares our special guest host Jacques Pépin in today’s episode.
“Today's poem is a French classic, one that countless schoolchildren have learned to recite over the decades. It strings us together in a song of feeling, a song of remembering,” shares our special guest host Jacques Pépin in today’s episode.
“Today's poem confronts what it means to live in community on the land with one another. It shows us that persevering against the powers that encourage violence takes the physical and metaphysical task of rising above the experience of the individual and into a shared space,” shares our special guest host Adrienne Maree Brown in today’s episode.
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“Today's poem, by a classic modern poet, finds deep human truth in what seems like a nursery rhyme. It came into my life when I had almost lost the dream I was working toward. Now, it reflects back to me how inevitable loss is. But also, the beauty to be found through one’s own eyes and ears,” shares our special guest host Eric Whitacre in today’s episode.
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“Voices of the Air” by Katherine Mansfield. Read by Major Jackson. For a new poem each weekday, follow The Slowdown on your favorite podcast app. (Video by Anjali Bose)
