1529 Episodes

  1. 1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández

    Published: 4/4/2024

  2. 1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

    Published: 4/3/2024

  3. 1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist

    Published: 4/2/2024

  4. 1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet

    Published: 4/1/2024

  5. 1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze

    Published: 3/29/2024

  6. 1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah

    Published: 3/28/2024

  7. 1083: first person by Ed Roberson

    Published: 3/27/2024

  8. 1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe

    Published: 3/26/2024

  9. 1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    Published: 3/25/2024

  10. 1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman

    Published: 3/22/2024

  11. 1079: Cassandra by Sasha West

    Published: 3/21/2024

  12. 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

    Published: 3/20/2024

  13. 1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn

    Published: 3/19/2024

  14. 1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart

    Published: 3/18/2024

  15. 1075: Translation by Anne Spencer

    Published: 3/15/2024

  16. 1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard

    Published: 3/14/2024

  17. 1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein

    Published: 3/13/2024

  18. 1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur

    Published: 3/12/2024

  19. 1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter

    Published: 3/11/2024

  20. 1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross

    Published: 3/8/2024

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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.