1545 Episodes

  1. 109: Pearl

    Published: 4/25/2019

  2. 108: Backwards

    Published: 4/24/2019

  3. 107: Thank You For Waiting

    Published: 4/23/2019

  4. 106: Lake Michigan, Scene 3

    Published: 4/23/2019

  5. 105: I Just Hope I Can Sleep

    Published: 4/19/2019

  6. 104: Poem for an Antique Korean Fisher Bobber

    Published: 4/18/2019

  7. 103: The Skylark

    Published: 4/17/2019

  8. 102: Love Poem

    Published: 4/16/2019

  9. 101: Postcards from the Labyrinth

    Published: 4/15/2019

  10. 100: New World Orchestra

    Published: 4/12/2019

  11. 99: Philadelphia

    Published: 4/11/2019

  12. 98: stunt

    Published: 4/10/2019

  13. 97: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["You don't seem to want it, but you wanted it"]

    Published: 4/9/2019

  14. 96: The Sun Rising

    Published: 4/8/2019

  15. 95: A Very Good Dog

    Published: 4/5/2019

  16. 94: Anna May Wong on Silent Films

    Published: 4/4/2019

  17. 93: Purple Bathing Suit

    Published: 4/3/2019

  18. 92: Always Alone

    Published: 4/2/2019

  19. 91: Consider Me

    Published: 4/1/2019

  20. 90: Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother

    Published: 3/29/2019

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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.