1540 Episodes

  1. 381: excerpt from 13th Balloon

    Published: 5/11/2020

  2. 380: When Your Mother Asks If You're Seeing Anyone And No Longer Means A Therapist

    Published: 5/8/2020

  3. 379: February & my love is in another state

    Published: 5/7/2020

  4. 378: Play Like A Boy

    Published: 5/6/2020

  5. 377: Moon Pull

    Published: 5/5/2020

  6. 376: In Perpetual Spring

    Published: 5/4/2020

  7. 375: The Party

    Published: 5/1/2020

  8. 374: After the Winter

    Published: 4/30/2020

  9. 373: Tracing the Horse

    Published: 4/29/2020

  10. 372: We Always Have Been

    Published: 4/28/2020

  11. 371: What Women Are Made Of

    Published: 4/27/2020

  12. 370: I will praise your plain songs

    Published: 4/24/2020

  13. 369: In Which Our Wants Are Worlds

    Published: 4/23/2020

  14. 368: The Singing Place

    Published: 4/22/2020

  15. 367: After all those years of fear and raging in my poems

    Published: 4/21/2020

  16. 366: Wedding Poem

    Published: 4/20/2020

  17. 365: Peace Path

    Published: 4/17/2020

  18. Our favorite episodes on hope, kindness, and more

    Published: 4/16/2020

  19. 364: Leaving the University Gym

    Published: 4/16/2020

  20. 363: Home

    Published: 4/15/2020

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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.