1550 Episodes

  1. 193: Winter Trees

    Published: 8/21/2019

  2. 192: The Death of an Elephant

    Published: 8/20/2019

  3. 191: Staying Alive

    Published: 8/19/2019

  4. 190: World Word by Eamon Grennan

    Published: 8/16/2019

  5. 189: Old Farmer

    Published: 8/15/2019

  6. 188: Failure

    Published: 8/14/2019

  7. 187: Summary of Fifteen Years

    Published: 8/13/2019

  8. 186: Directions To Finding You, Or Maybe Just An Inferior Prayer

    Published: 8/12/2019

  9. 185: Hit

    Published: 8/9/2019

  10. 184: Heirloom

    Published: 8/8/2019

  11. 183: A Room at Last

    Published: 8/7/2019

  12. 182: Writing a Poem

    Published: 8/6/2019

  13. 181: Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight

    Published: 8/5/2019

  14. 180: Evening Sun

    Published: 8/2/2019

  15. 179: Using A Hula Hoop Can Get You Abducted By Aliens

    Published: 8/1/2019

  16. 178: God

    Published: 7/31/2019

  17. 177: Mammogram Call Back with Ultra Sound

    Published: 7/30/2019

  18. 176: The Boatman

    Published: 7/29/2019

  19. 175: Immigrant Can't Write Poetry

    Published: 7/26/2019

  20. 174: Casa

    Published: 7/25/2019

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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.