1546 Episodes

  1. 627: Don't Say Love Just Signal

    Published: 3/9/2022

  2. 626: Explication on a Nude Photograph Taken After Hours at the Bright Beach

    Published: 3/8/2022

  3. 625: Not everything is a poem

    Published: 3/7/2022

  4. 624: Sunflowers in the Median

    Published: 3/4/2022

  5. 623: What Do You Want to Do Today

    Published: 3/3/2022

  6. 622: Self-Portrait With Woman On The Subway

    Published: 3/2/2022

  7. 621: The Wrong Question More Than Once

    Published: 3/1/2022

  8. 620: Egrets

    Published: 2/28/2022

  9. 619: Without Enchantment

    Published: 2/25/2022

  10. 618: Elegy for Kentucky

    Published: 2/24/2022

  11. 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi

    Published: 2/23/2022

  12. 616: flight training

    Published: 2/22/2022

  13. 615: The Studio

    Published: 2/21/2022

  14. 614: On Being Asked, "What Is Your Dream Job?"

    Published: 2/18/2022

  15. 613: City Lake

    Published: 2/17/2022

  16. 612: After the Fire

    Published: 2/16/2022

  17. 610: A Valentine

    Published: 2/14/2022

  18. 608: Las Chácharas They Carried

    Published: 2/10/2022

  19. 607: Chelsea Piers

    Published: 2/9/2022

  20. 606: The Lunch Counter of Eternal Tears

    Published: 2/8/2022

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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.