Friends, if you're looking for other ways to incorporate poetry into your life, I'd be delighted

if you'd go and check out the slowdown if you don't already.

The slowdown podcast comes out every weekday and it's got short episodes that guide you

on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey life through poetry.

And the newest host of the slowdown is the award-winning poet and good friend, Major Jackson.

I met him a few years ago at a meal and ever since we've stayed in touch and skimmed

about how to deepen the love and the readership of poetry through podcasts.

So you can join Major for a hand-picked poem and a moment of reflection every single weekday.

Find the slowdown wherever you get your podcasts.

I love listening to it and I know you will too.

My name is Podrigo Tumor and when I was younger there were stories about myself that I absolutely

didn't tell anyone, particularly the story about being gay because there was so much threat

involved in that.

And as time went by I told a few people but there was definitely a script that I had to say

to fit in and to not frighten them too much or not get myself fired or not get myself

under threat.

And as years went by, as society changed, I was able to put different parts of the script

alongside each other in new ways and to examine myself in that and to move away from a script

I used to say in order to examine how might I tell this story in a new way that's open

to the possibility of surprise.

Pantume for Recycled when my mom said don't let them see your cry by Kay O'London Barrett.

As a child I was dressed as a bumblebee buzzing.

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