1533 Episodes

  1. 1024: Ashes

    Published: 12/20/2023

  2. 1023: Hurrying Toward the Present

    Published: 12/19/2023

  3. 1022: Two Shadows

    Published: 12/18/2023

  4. 1021: Making Things

    Published: 12/15/2023

  5. 1020: Ithaka

    Published: 12/14/2023

  6. 1019: Ambition

    Published: 12/13/2023

  7. 1018: Cuffing Season

    Published: 12/12/2023

  8. 1017: Parallel Worlds

    Published: 12/11/2023

  9. 1016: In the Seam of Life

    Published: 12/8/2023

  10. 1015: Death Letter #2

    Published: 12/7/2023

  11. 1014: Date

    Published: 12/6/2023

  12. 1013: Reading Poetry in Illness

    Published: 12/5/2023

  13. 1012: Morning Glory

    Published: 12/4/2023

  14. 1011: Bloodroot

    Published: 12/1/2023

  15. 1010: Self-care Bucket List

    Published: 11/30/2023

  16. 1009: Teleology

    Published: 11/29/2023

  17. 1008: Kinds of Silence

    Published: 11/28/2023

  18. 1007: To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem

    Published: 11/27/2023

  19. 1006: Something Sweet

    Published: 11/24/2023

  20. 1005: eco-hood

    Published: 11/23/2023

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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.