1534 Episodes

  1. [encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse

    Published: 7/3/2025

  2. [encore] 541: Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké

    Published: 7/2/2025

  3. [encore] 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez

    Published: 7/1/2025

  4. [encore] 710: Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko

    Published: 6/30/2025

  5. [encore] 463: To be of use by Marge Piercy

    Published: 6/27/2025

  6. [encore] 403: The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker

    Published: 6/26/2025

  7. [encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres

    Published: 6/25/2025

  8. [encore] 448: Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim

    Published: 6/24/2025

  9. [encore] 377: Moon Pull by Carlina Duan

    Published: 6/23/2025

  10. [encore] 871: Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau

    Published: 6/20/2025

  11. [encore] 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

    Published: 6/19/2025

  12. 1332: Slow Take: An Evening of Poetry and Reflection with The Slowdown and The Porch

    Published: 6/18/2025

  13. [encore] 969: Us by Zaffar Kunial

    Published: 6/17/2025

  14. [encore] 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

    Published: 6/16/2025

  15. [encore] 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall

    Published: 6/13/2025

  16. [encore] 531: anti-immigration by Evie Shockley

    Published: 6/12/2025

  17. [encore] 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez

    Published: 6/11/2025

  18. [encore] 516: In Response to Feeling Alone by t. liem

    Published: 6/10/2025

  19. [encore] 603: Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg

    Published: 6/9/2025

  20. [encore] 373: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado

    Published: 6/6/2025

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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.