1529 Episodes

  1. 1109: Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier

    Published: 5/2/2024

  2. 1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux

    Published: 5/1/2024

  3. 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford

    Published: 4/30/2024

  4. 1106: Life In The Gush Of Boasts by Elijah Burrell

    Published: 4/29/2024

  5. 1105: Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral

    Published: 4/26/2024

  6. 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

    Published: 4/25/2024

  7. 1103: Chaos Theory by Clint Smith

    Published: 4/24/2024

  8. 1102: How to Be a Good Savage by Mikeas Sánchez, translated by Wendy Call and Shook

    Published: 4/23/2024

  9. 1101: 1971 Pontiac LeMans by Thomas Bolt

    Published: 4/22/2024

  10. 1100: Ode to The Lone Star State by Jubi Arriola-Headley

    Published: 4/19/2024

  11. 1099: Something by Andrea Cohen

    Published: 4/18/2024

  12. 1098: Rant by Nathalie Anderson

    Published: 4/17/2024

  13. 1097: Mercy, Mercy Me by Olatunde Osinaike

    Published: 4/16/2024

  14. 1096: Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca, translated by Merryn Williams

    Published: 4/15/2024

  15. 1095: Nameless Places by Tony Petrosky

    Published: 4/12/2024

  16. 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

    Published: 4/11/2024

  17. 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

    Published: 4/10/2024

  18. 1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah

    Published: 4/9/2024

  19. 1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield

    Published: 4/8/2024

  20. 1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker

    Published: 4/5/2024

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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.