1539 Episodes

  1. [encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō

    Published: 5/15/2025

  2. [encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher

    Published: 5/14/2025

  3. [encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong

    Published: 5/13/2025

  4. [encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla

    Published: 5/12/2025

  5. [encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne

    Published: 5/9/2025

  6. [encore] 995: Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron

    Published: 5/8/2025

  7. [encore] 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin

    Published: 5/7/2025

  8. [encore] 860: Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu

    Published: 5/6/2025

  9. [encore] 1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant

    Published: 5/5/2025

  10. [encore] 789: hoop snake by Rebecca Wee

    Published: 5/2/2025

  11. [encore] 547: Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Published: 5/1/2025

  12. [encore] 661: The Field by Rick Barot

    Published: 4/30/2025

  13. [encore] 765: a fishing story. by Mia S. Willis

    Published: 4/29/2025

  14. [encore] 723: Divorce by José A. Alcántara

    Published: 4/28/2025

  15. [encore] 476: Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens

    Published: 4/25/2025

  16. [encore] 499: Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster

    Published: 4/24/2025

  17. [encore] 143: Untitled by Sesshu Foster

    Published: 4/23/2025

  18. [encore] 282: Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone

    Published: 4/22/2025

  19. [encore] 305: Wake Up by Carl Phillips

    Published: 4/21/2025

  20. [encore] 1045: Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz

    Published: 4/18/2025

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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.