1550 Episodes

  1. 253: The Voyage Nowhere

    Published: 11/13/2019

  2. 252: Frequently Asked Questions: #7

    Published: 11/12/2019

  3. 251: Feet

    Published: 11/11/2019

  4. 250: Passage

    Published: 11/8/2019

  5. 249: Hospital Linens

    Published: 11/7/2019

  6. 248: [They will tell you that I was sick, that I was a drug addict.]

    Published: 11/6/2019

  7. 247: Tide Pool

    Published: 11/5/2019

  8. 246: On Election Day

    Published: 11/4/2019

  9. 245: Push the Week

    Published: 11/1/2019

  10. 244: We Are Not Responsible

    Published: 10/31/2019

  11. 243: My Aunts

    Published: 10/30/2019

  12. 242: Falling from the Roof of the Free World

    Published: 10/29/2019

  13. 241: Lisle, Illinois, November 1972

    Published: 10/28/2019

  14. 240: Processional

    Published: 10/25/2019

  15. 239: Elegy for Almost

    Published: 10/24/2019

  16. 238: Cindy Comes To Hear Me Read

    Published: 10/23/2019

  17. 237: Workshop

    Published: 10/22/2019

  18. 236: Polaroid Ode

    Published: 10/21/2019

  19. 235: Body and Soul

    Published: 10/18/2019

  20. 234: Last Kiss

    Published: 10/17/2019

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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.