1550 Episodes

  1. 273: What Begets What Begets

    Published: 12/11/2019

  2. 272: Double Dutch

    Published: 12/10/2019

  3. 271: Sunlight and Chilies

    Published: 12/9/2019

  4. 270: When I Am Six

    Published: 12/6/2019

  5. 269: For a Lost Fragment

    Published: 12/5/2019

  6. 268: Gate C22

    Published: 12/4/2019

  7. 267: Fly in Our Salad

    Published: 12/3/2019

  8. 266: After You Get Up Early On Memorial Day

    Published: 12/2/2019

  9. 265: Amores Perros

    Published: 11/29/2019

  10. 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua

    Published: 11/28/2019

  11. 263: Her Daughter's Eyes

    Published: 11/27/2019

  12. 262: The Season of Phantasmal Peace

    Published: 11/26/2019

  13. 261: Cancer

    Published: 11/25/2019

  14. 260: Morning

    Published: 11/22/2019

  15. 259: Opus from Space

    Published: 11/21/2019

  16. 258: song: for my high school sweetheart

    Published: 11/20/2019

  17. 257: Eros the Contagion

    Published: 11/19/2019

  18. 256: Afterwords

    Published: 11/18/2019

  19. 255: The Old Country

    Published: 11/15/2019

  20. 254: So Much Happiness

    Published: 11/14/2019

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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.