1550 Episodes

  1. 333: In Defense of Small Towns

    Published: 3/4/2020

  2. 332: An excerpt from Gates

    Published: 3/3/2020

  3. 331: "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

    Published: 3/2/2020

  4. 330: Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle

    Published: 2/28/2020

  5. 329: Strawberries and Cream

    Published: 2/27/2020

  6. 328: A Joke about How Old We've Become

    Published: 2/26/2020

  7. 327: Lincoln Town Car

    Published: 2/25/2020

  8. 326: Miz Rosa Rides the Bus

    Published: 2/24/2020

  9. 325: If You're Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You

    Published: 2/21/2020

  10. 324: Of Being Sick and Tired

    Published: 2/20/2020

  11. 323: An excerpt from Personal Effects

    Published: 2/19/2020

  12. 322: Northeast Corridor

    Published: 2/18/2020

  13. 321: Inheritance

    Published: 2/17/2020

  14. 320: How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This

    Published: 2/14/2020

  15. 319: A Year Dot

    Published: 2/13/2020

  16. 318: Hurricane

    Published: 2/12/2020

  17. 317: Meditation on Beauty

    Published: 2/11/2020

  18. 316: He Dreams of Falling

    Published: 2/10/2020

  19. 315: I Will Love You Most When I Can Barely Remember Anything

    Published: 2/7/2020

  20. 314: Domestic

    Published: 2/6/2020

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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.