1543 Episodes

  1. 226: No War

    Published: 10/7/2019

  2. 225: The Government Has Been Canceled

    Published: 10/4/2019

  3. 224: Birthday Poem

    Published: 10/3/2019

  4. 223: sorrows by Lucille Clifton

    Published: 10/2/2019

  5. 222: The opposite of the ocean is no ocean.

    Published: 10/1/2019

  6. 221: enough food and a mom

    Published: 9/30/2019

  7. 220: Through a Glass though Which We Cannot See

    Published: 9/27/2019

  8. 219: Personals

    Published: 9/26/2019

  9. 218: Enough

    Published: 9/25/2019

  10. 217: Essay on Wood

    Published: 9/24/2019

  11. 216: The Wooden Overcoat

    Published: 9/23/2019

  12. 215: Even The Rain

    Published: 9/20/2019

  13. 214: The Barbarians Are Coming

    Published: 9/19/2019

  14. 213: Closure

    Published: 9/18/2019

  15. 212: Drip

    Published: 9/17/2019

  16. 211: One Is One

    Published: 9/16/2019

  17. 210: Anemoia

    Published: 9/13/2019

  18. 209: Discovery

    Published: 9/12/2019

  19. 208: Killdeer

    Published: 9/11/2019

  20. 207: Parable for Refugees

    Published: 9/10/2019

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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.