1545 Episodes

  1. 89: Crowning

    Published: 3/28/2019

  2. 88: Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder

    Published: 3/27/2019

  3. 87: The Space Between Skins Is Called A Wound

    Published: 3/26/2019

  4. 86: Black cricket in the doorway, on the ceiling, in

    Published: 3/25/2019

  5. 85: Night Surrender

    Published: 3/22/2019

  6. 84: Storm

    Published: 3/21/2019

  7. 83: Spring and Fall

    Published: 3/20/2019

  8. 82: I Watch Her Eat the Apple

    Published: 3/19/2019

  9. 81: Parable of a Firstborn

    Published: 3/18/2019

  10. 80: Muse

    Published: 3/15/2019

  11. 79: Trans Is Against Nostalgia

    Published: 3/14/2019

  12. 78: Introduction to Patriarchy

    Published: 3/13/2019

  13. 77: Utsuroi

    Published: 3/12/2019

  14. 76: Listen

    Published: 3/11/2019

  15. 75: The Unwritten

    Published: 3/8/2019

  16. 74: Waking Up

    Published: 3/7/2019

  17. 73: If They Come for Us

    Published: 3/6/2019

  18. 72: Bat

    Published: 3/5/2019

  19. 71: Naomi

    Published: 3/4/2019

  20. 70: On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna

    Published: 3/1/2019

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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.