1550 Episodes

  1. 589: addy

    Published: 1/14/2022

  2. 588: Good Death

    Published: 1/13/2022

  3. 587: An Old Story

    Published: 1/12/2022

  4. 586: Poem That Leaves Behind The Ocean

    Published: 1/11/2022

  5. 585: Complex Nonlinear Systems

    Published: 1/10/2022

  6. 584: Marte

    Published: 1/7/2022

  7. 583: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Pursuit of Gender Euphoria

    Published: 1/6/2022

  8. 582: Marrying the Wind

    Published: 1/5/2022

  9. 581: Red-ish Brown-ish

    Published: 1/4/2022

  10. 580: Walking the Dogs

    Published: 1/3/2022

  11. 579: My Empire

    Published: 12/31/2021

  12. 578: Setting Lemon Curd

    Published: 12/30/2021

  13. 577: Poem Beginning to Sound

    Published: 12/29/2021

  14. 576: Taking Down the Tree

    Published: 12/28/2021

  15. 575: How I Learned Bliss

    Published: 12/27/2021

  16. 574: Monday

    Published: 12/24/2021

  17. 573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood

    Published: 12/23/2021

  18. 572: Earth Evanescent

    Published: 12/22/2021

  19. 571: Golden Age

    Published: 12/21/2021

  20. 570: Asking About My Mother

    Published: 12/20/2021

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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.