1550 Episodes

  1. 213: Closure

    Published: 9/18/2019

  2. 212: Drip

    Published: 9/17/2019

  3. 211: One Is One

    Published: 9/16/2019

  4. 210: Anemoia

    Published: 9/13/2019

  5. 209: Discovery

    Published: 9/12/2019

  6. 208: Killdeer

    Published: 9/11/2019

  7. 207: Parable for Refugees

    Published: 9/10/2019

  8. 206: Marriage

    Published: 9/9/2019

  9. 205: Music from Childhood

    Published: 9/6/2019

  10. 204: Remember What I Came Here to Do to This World Very Little Actually

    Published: 9/5/2019

  11. 203: Sister as Moving Object

    Published: 9/4/2019

  12. 202: Losers

    Published: 9/3/2019

  13. 201: Freeway 280

    Published: 9/2/2019

  14. 200: Left to ask

    Published: 8/30/2019

  15. 199: Small Kindnesses

    Published: 8/29/2019

  16. 198: Night Work

    Published: 8/28/2019

  17. 197: Tornado Child

    Published: 8/27/2019

  18. 196: Bargain

    Published: 8/26/2019

  19. 195: Update

    Published: 8/23/2019

  20. 194: A world's too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me

    Published: 8/22/2019

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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.