[encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

Today’s poem is Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann.

The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we’re going back into the archive to revisit Ada Limón’s time as host. Today’s episode was originally released on April 29, 2022.

In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “Today’s poem is that kind of prayer, a prayer for pleasure, for the brief moment of relief, to be made whole again. In this poem’s repetition we hear the desperation, but also the song.”

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