1550 Episodes

  1. 233: On the D Train

    Published: 10/16/2019

  2. 232: My Embodiment

    Published: 10/15/2019

  3. 231: My Grandmother's Love Letters

    Published: 10/14/2019

  4. 230: My Mother of Invention

    Published: 10/11/2019

  5. 229: Pig

    Published: 10/10/2019

  6. 228: Hair

    Published: 10/9/2019

  7. 227: Club Icarus

    Published: 10/8/2019

  8. 226: No War

    Published: 10/7/2019

  9. 225: The Government Has Been Canceled

    Published: 10/4/2019

  10. 224: Birthday Poem

    Published: 10/3/2019

  11. 223: sorrows by Lucille Clifton

    Published: 10/2/2019

  12. 222: The opposite of the ocean is no ocean.

    Published: 10/1/2019

  13. 221: enough food and a mom

    Published: 9/30/2019

  14. 220: Through a Glass though Which We Cannot See

    Published: 9/27/2019

  15. 219: Personals

    Published: 9/26/2019

  16. 218: Enough

    Published: 9/25/2019

  17. 217: Essay on Wood

    Published: 9/24/2019

  18. 216: The Wooden Overcoat

    Published: 9/23/2019

  19. 215: Even The Rain

    Published: 9/20/2019

  20. 214: The Barbarians Are Coming

    Published: 9/19/2019

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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.