1550 Episodes

  1. 293: Sitting Down to Breakfast Alone

    Published: 1/8/2020

  2. 292: Remember

    Published: 1/7/2020

  3. 291: Jabberwocky

    Published: 1/6/2020

  4. 290: The Birds of New York

    Published: 1/3/2020

  5. 289: The Traveling Onion

    Published: 1/2/2020

  6. 288: On the Turning of the Year

    Published: 1/1/2020

  7. 287: Prayer On Aladdin's Lamp

    Published: 12/31/2019

  8. 286: How We Programmed the Apocalypse

    Published: 12/30/2019

  9. 285: Kerosene Litany

    Published: 12/27/2019

  10. 284: Holy

    Published: 12/26/2019

  11. 283: When Giving Is All We Have

    Published: 12/25/2019

  12. 282: Waiting for Happiness

    Published: 12/24/2019

  13. 281: Penalty Shot

    Published: 12/23/2019

  14. 280: Outside my Harlem Window

    Published: 12/20/2019

  15. 279: Excerpt from Nature Poem

    Published: 12/19/2019

  16. 278: Thanks

    Published: 12/18/2019

  17. 277: Assail As Sail Ails As

    Published: 12/17/2019

  18. 276: Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive?

    Published: 12/16/2019

  19. 275: What a Cyborg Wants

    Published: 12/13/2019

  20. 274: Initial Encounter with Locals

    Published: 12/12/2019

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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.