1548 Episodes

  1. 369: In Which Our Wants Are Worlds

    Published: 4/23/2020

  2. 368: The Singing Place

    Published: 4/22/2020

  3. 367: After all those years of fear and raging in my poems

    Published: 4/21/2020

  4. 366: Wedding Poem

    Published: 4/20/2020

  5. 365: Peace Path

    Published: 4/17/2020

  6. Our favorite episodes on hope, kindness, and more

    Published: 4/16/2020

  7. 364: Leaving the University Gym

    Published: 4/16/2020

  8. 363: Home

    Published: 4/15/2020

  9. 362: The Bald Truth

    Published: 4/14/2020

  10. 361: Song for the Festival

    Published: 4/13/2020

  11. 360: Hello

    Published: 4/10/2020

  12. 359: Naming Ceremony

    Published: 4/9/2020

  13. 358: Talent

    Published: 4/8/2020

  14. 357: The Third Dimension

    Published: 4/7/2020

  15. 356: Momma Said

    Published: 4/6/2020

  16. 355: Hotel

    Published: 4/3/2020

  17. 354: In the House of Maria Callas

    Published: 4/2/2020

  18. 353: For My People

    Published: 4/1/2020

  19. 352: Interesting Times

    Published: 3/31/2020

  20. 351: Fish Heads

    Published: 3/30/2020

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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.