The Slowdown, a daily poetry podcast hosted by Maggie Smith and produced by American Public Media, is seeking poems curated by our community of listeners for a special week of programming.
If selected, you must be available for a remote interview to discuss why you picked your chosen poem.
Submissions will close Tuesday, May 26th at 11:59 PM PST.
What are we looking for? At The Slowdown, we want to share poems that inspire how we move through our daily lives. What poems have made you stop and reflect? What poems have helped you keep going? What poems have you wanted to send to a friend or a loved one to help them slow down?
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Submission Conditions:
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Please do not submit your own work
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The poem must be published in a book, literary magazine, or collection (online publications are suitable)
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Primarily in English (including works translated and published in English)
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Maximum 500 words! Not sure how long that is? Read it out loud at a gentle pace and time yourself. Is it around or under 4.5 minutes? Then it should work!
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If selected, you must be available for a remote interview to discuss why you picked your chosen poem
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Submission format: PDF or JPEG of the full text (can be a screenshot of the published piece). Some examples of forms that work are:
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a screenshot or print-to-PDF capture of a webpage from an online literary magazine
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a screenshot or print-to-PDF capture of a website like poets.org
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a picture or a PDF-capture of a page of a book and the title page
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