1545 Episodes

  1. 49: The View

    Published: 1/31/2019

  2. 48: Elegy for Smoking

    Published: 1/30/2019

  3. 47: The Emperor's Deer

    Published: 1/29/2019

  4. 46: Origin Stories

    Published: 1/28/2019

  5. 45: Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath's Braid

    Published: 1/25/2019

  6. 44: Swatting Flies

    Published: 1/24/2019

  7. 43: Black is Beautiful

    Published: 1/23/2019

  8. 42: Flesh

    Published: 1/22/2019

  9. 41: Sweeping the States

    Published: 1/21/2019

  10. 40: Kettling

    Published: 1/18/2019

  11. 39: Walking Home

    Published: 1/17/2019

  12. 38: Ode to the Pager

    Published: 1/16/2019

  13. 37: To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self

    Published: 1/15/2019

  14. 36: Quiet Places

    Published: 1/14/2019

  15. 35: Poem in Which I Be a Doe & You, by Effect, Are a Wolf

    Published: 1/11/2019

  16. 34: Speaking Tree

    Published: 1/10/2019

  17. 33: Photograph: Circa 1960

    Published: 1/9/2019

  18. 32: Gentrifier

    Published: 1/8/2019

  19. 31: Turtle, Swan

    Published: 1/7/2019

  20. 30: Vows

    Published: 1/4/2019

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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.