1548 Episodes

  1. 389: Kissing the Opelu

    Published: 5/21/2020

  2. 388: Once In A Lifetime, Snow

    Published: 5/20/2020

  3. 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That

    Published: 5/19/2020

  4. 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong

    Published: 5/18/2020

  5. 385: American Mother

    Published: 5/15/2020

  6. 384: And We Love Life

    Published: 5/14/2020

  7. 383: A Beautiful Child

    Published: 5/13/2020

  8. 382: Another Night at Sea Level

    Published: 5/12/2020

  9. 381: excerpt from 13th Balloon

    Published: 5/11/2020

  10. 380: When Your Mother Asks If You're Seeing Anyone And No Longer Means A Therapist

    Published: 5/8/2020

  11. 379: February & my love is in another state

    Published: 5/7/2020

  12. 378: Play Like A Boy

    Published: 5/6/2020

  13. 377: Moon Pull

    Published: 5/5/2020

  14. 376: In Perpetual Spring

    Published: 5/4/2020

  15. 375: The Party

    Published: 5/1/2020

  16. 374: After the Winter

    Published: 4/30/2020

  17. 373: Tracing the Horse

    Published: 4/29/2020

  18. 372: We Always Have Been

    Published: 4/28/2020

  19. 371: What Women Are Made Of

    Published: 4/27/2020

  20. 370: I will praise your plain songs

    Published: 4/24/2020

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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.