1548 Episodes

  1. 429: Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese

    Published: 7/16/2020

  2. 428: Oxtail Stew

    Published: 7/15/2020

  3. 427: Butter

    Published: 7/14/2020

  4. 426: Lesson: Chicken Soup

    Published: 7/13/2020

  5. 425: Frequently Asked Questions: #7

    Published: 7/10/2020

  6. 424: A Mother's Mouth Illuminated

    Published: 7/9/2020

  7. 423: poem for palm pressed upon pane

    Published: 7/8/2020

  8. 422: The End of Science Fiction

    Published: 7/7/2020

  9. 421: Immigrant Picnic

    Published: 7/6/2020

  10. 420: Kerosene Litany

    Published: 7/3/2020

  11. 419: Mebble

    Published: 7/2/2020

  12. 418: Wild Peaches

    Published: 7/1/2020

  13. 417: Before Dawn in October

    Published: 6/30/2020

  14. 416: Basic Needs

    Published: 6/29/2020

  15. 415: Variations in Blue

    Published: 6/26/2020

  16. 414: Full Capacity

    Published: 6/25/2020

  17. 413: Ask Me Why I Love You

    Published: 6/24/2020

  18. 412: Words Were Changing

    Published: 6/23/2020

  19. 411: Soaking Up Sun

    Published: 6/22/2020

  20. 410: For My People

    Published: 6/19/2020

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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.