1591 Episodes

  1. [encore] 1005: eco-hood by Melania Luisa Marte

    Published: 7/28/2025

  2. [encore] 624: Sunflowers in the Median

    Published: 7/25/2025

  3. [encore] 526: Saudade

    Published: 7/24/2025

  4. [encore] 645: It’s 9:30am, I’ve ran four miles, cried four times, & eaten two chicken sandwiches

    Published: 7/23/2025

  5. [encore] 510: Let Me

    Published: 7/22/2025

  6. [encore] 788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash

    Published: 7/21/2025

  7. [encore] 382: Another Night at Sea Level by Meg Day

    Published: 7/18/2025

  8. [encore] 442: Climbing China's Great Wall by Afaa M. Weaver

    Published: 7/17/2025

  9. [encore] 454: On a Spaceship Somewhere, Long After Empire's Collapse by Jesús I. Valles

    Published: 7/16/2025

  10. [encore] 470: Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry by Jericho Brown

    Published: 7/15/2025

  11. [encore] 393: Song In Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster by Tess Taylor

    Published: 7/14/2025

  12. [encore] 1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon

    Published: 7/11/2025

  13. [encore] 1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Published: 7/10/2025

  14. [encore] 1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

    Published: 7/9/2025

  15. [encore] 1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

    Published: 7/8/2025

  16. [encore] 1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

    Published: 7/7/2025

  17. [encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

    Published: 7/4/2025

  18. [encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse

    Published: 7/3/2025

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

    Published: 7/2/2025

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

    Published: 7/1/2025

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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.