1543 Episodes

  1. 206: Marriage

    Published: 9/9/2019

  2. 205: Music from Childhood

    Published: 9/6/2019

  3. 204: Remember What I Came Here to Do to This World Very Little Actually

    Published: 9/5/2019

  4. 203: Sister as Moving Object

    Published: 9/4/2019

  5. 202: Losers

    Published: 9/3/2019

  6. 201: Freeway 280

    Published: 9/2/2019

  7. 200: Left to ask

    Published: 8/30/2019

  8. 199: Small Kindnesses

    Published: 8/29/2019

  9. 198: Night Work

    Published: 8/28/2019

  10. 197: Tornado Child

    Published: 8/27/2019

  11. 196: Bargain

    Published: 8/26/2019

  12. 195: Update

    Published: 8/23/2019

  13. 194: A world's too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me

    Published: 8/22/2019

  14. 193: Winter Trees

    Published: 8/21/2019

  15. 192: The Death of an Elephant

    Published: 8/20/2019

  16. 191: Staying Alive

    Published: 8/19/2019

  17. 190: World Word by Eamon Grennan

    Published: 8/16/2019

  18. 189: Old Farmer

    Published: 8/15/2019

  19. 188: Failure

    Published: 8/14/2019

  20. 187: Summary of Fifteen Years

    Published: 8/13/2019

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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.