1134: Americans by Katie Peterson

Published: June 6, 2024, 8 a.m.

Today\u2019s poem is Americans by Katie Peterson.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\u2026 \u201cWhenever I hear a person refer to people by their geographic or cultural or national association, I wince. In doing so, we falsely implicate everything from intelligence levels to physical appearances. This strikes me as crude, reductive, unintentionally demeaning.\u201d Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp