1533 Episodes

  1. 572: Earth Evanescent

    Published: 12/22/2021

  2. 571: Golden Age

    Published: 12/21/2021

  3. 570: Asking About My Mother

    Published: 12/20/2021

  4. 569: Let's Crawl Into That Photograph & Stay There for a While

    Published: 12/17/2021

  5. 568: When You're Young You Always Take Too Much

    Published: 12/16/2021

  6. 567: Besaydoo

    Published: 12/15/2021

  7. 566: [little tree]

    Published: 12/14/2021

  8. 565: Go Inward

    Published: 12/13/2021

  9. 564: Spell

    Published: 12/10/2021

  10. 563: Dust of Snow

    Published: 12/9/2021

  11. 562: The Lonely Humans

    Published: 12/8/2021

  12. 561: from "frank: sonnets"

    Published: 12/7/2021

  13. 560: I, Lover

    Published: 12/6/2021

  14. 559: Parable of Childhood

    Published: 12/3/2021

  15. 558: City That Does Not Sleep

    Published: 12/2/2021

  16. 557: from A Year

    Published: 12/1/2021

  17. 556: Our Land

    Published: 11/30/2021

  18. 555: Private Property

    Published: 11/29/2021

  19. 554: Sonoran Desert Poem

    Published: 11/26/2021

  20. 553: Daylight Saving, Age 5

    Published: 11/25/2021

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Host Maggie Smith is your daily poetry companion. Poetry is one of the greatest tools we have to wield our own attention — to consider our own lives and the lives of others, to help us live creatively and compassionately, to use that attention to lean into wonder, and joy, and truth, and to find hope — to keep hoping. The Slowdown community knows that reflecting on a poem, every weekday, can connect us to our inner world and the world around us. Listen as you make your morning coffee, as you go on a walk in your neighborhood, as you pull away from the to-do list, as you resist the dismal, endless scroll to share five minutes of perspective through the lens of poetry, from poets old and new, well-loved and emerging onto the scene. Brought to you by American Public Media, in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.