1550 Episodes

  1. 313: Abeyance

    Published: 2/5/2020

  2. 312: Return

    Published: 2/4/2020

  3. 311: Listen,

    Published: 2/3/2020

  4. 310: Mother Mind

    Published: 1/31/2020

  5. 309: Ships That Pass in the Night

    Published: 1/30/2020

  6. 308: Let Me Tell You

    Published: 1/29/2020

  7. 307: Pomegranate Means Grenade

    Published: 1/28/2020

  8. 306: Essay on Reentry

    Published: 1/27/2020

  9. 305: Wake Up

    Published: 1/24/2020

  10. 304: Baby & I

    Published: 1/23/2020

  11. 303: Telling My Father

    Published: 1/22/2020

  12. 302: Swimming in the Rain

    Published: 1/21/2020

  13. 301: Confession

    Published: 1/20/2020

  14. 300: Privacy

    Published: 1/17/2020

  15. 299: Weight

    Published: 1/16/2020

  16. 298: Snow-flakes

    Published: 1/15/2020

  17. 297: The Clock

    Published: 1/14/2020

  18. 296: Making Zelnik at the Sibling Reunion

    Published: 1/13/2020

  19. 295: Voice

    Published: 1/10/2020

  20. 294: The Cup

    Published: 1/9/2020

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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.