1548 Episodes

  1. 449: Soft-Bodied Animals Leave Few Traces

    Published: 8/13/2020

  2. 448: Telephone of the Wind

    Published: 8/12/2020

  3. 447: We Eat Out Together

    Published: 8/11/2020

  4. 446: When Fannie Lou Hamer Said

    Published: 8/10/2020

  5. 445: Pomegranate Means Grenade

    Published: 8/7/2020

  6. 444: Mood Ring

    Published: 8/6/2020

  7. 443: The Aisle Not Taken

    Published: 8/5/2020

  8. 442: Climbing China's Great Wall

    Published: 8/4/2020

  9. 441: I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store

    Published: 8/3/2020

  10. 440: Miz Rosa Rides the Bus

    Published: 7/31/2020

  11. 439: Early Sunday Morning

    Published: 7/30/2020

  12. 438: (First Trimester)

    Published: 7/29/2020

  13. 437: Forgetfulness

    Published: 7/28/2020

  14. 436: Happiness

    Published: 7/27/2020

  15. 435: Inheritance

    Published: 7/24/2020

  16. 434: For the Woman on Main Street Stopping to Pull Up Her Pantyhose

    Published: 7/23/2020

  17. 433: In Praise of My Threaded Eyebrows

    Published: 7/22/2020

  18. 432: They Feed They Lion

    Published: 7/21/2020

  19. 431: Better or Worse

    Published: 7/20/2020

  20. 430: Fish Heads

    Published: 7/17/2020

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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.