1550 Episodes

  1. 691: Final Poem for the "Field of Poetry"

    Published: 6/7/2022

  2. 690: Deportation

    Published: 6/6/2022

  3. 689: Alive at the End of the World

    Published: 6/3/2022

  4. 688: [since feeling is first]

    Published: 6/2/2022

  5. 687: Ode to a Freckle above My Left Breast

    Published: 6/1/2022

  6. 686: The Wealth

    Published: 5/31/2022

  7. 685: Trees at Night

    Published: 5/30/2022

  8. 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't

    Published: 5/27/2022

  9. 683: I Have a Rendezvous With Life

    Published: 5/26/2022

  10. 682: At Forty, the Mountains Are More Green

    Published: 5/25/2022

  11. 681: The Point

    Published: 5/24/2022

  12. 680: The Years That The Days and Months Turned Into

    Published: 5/23/2022

  13. 679: Self-Care

    Published: 5/20/2022

  14. 678: You're the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With

    Published: 5/19/2022

  15. 677: Practicing

    Published: 5/18/2022

  16. 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers

    Published: 5/17/2022

  17. 675: [chiasmus with all the other animals]

    Published: 5/16/2022

  18. 674: My Ornithology (Orange-crowned Warbler)

    Published: 5/13/2022

  19. 673: New Town

    Published: 5/12/2022

  20. 672: The Cattle Dog

    Published: 5/11/2022

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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.