1541 Episodes

  1. 363: Home

    Published: 4/15/2020

  2. 362: The Bald Truth

    Published: 4/14/2020

  3. 361: Song for the Festival

    Published: 4/13/2020

  4. 360: Hello

    Published: 4/10/2020

  5. 359: Naming Ceremony

    Published: 4/9/2020

  6. 358: Talent

    Published: 4/8/2020

  7. 357: The Third Dimension

    Published: 4/7/2020

  8. 356: Momma Said

    Published: 4/6/2020

  9. 355: Hotel

    Published: 4/3/2020

  10. 354: In the House of Maria Callas

    Published: 4/2/2020

  11. 353: For My People

    Published: 4/1/2020

  12. 352: Interesting Times

    Published: 3/31/2020

  13. 351: Fish Heads

    Published: 3/30/2020

  14. 350: Obedience, or the Lying Tale

    Published: 3/27/2020

  15. A message from Tracy

    Published: 3/26/2020

  16. 349: Ikebana

    Published: 3/26/2020

  17. 348: Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

    Published: 3/25/2020

  18. 347: ABC for Refugees

    Published: 3/24/2020

  19. 346: The Long Deployment

    Published: 3/23/2020

  20. 345: The Lovers

    Published: 3/20/2020

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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.