1550 Episodes

  1. 173: Strong Men, Riding Horses

    Published: 7/24/2019

  2. 172: Poem for Passengers

    Published: 7/23/2019

  3. 171: Spring Morning

    Published: 7/22/2019

  4. 170: Dantalion

    Published: 7/19/2019

  5. 169: Haiku

    Published: 7/18/2019

  6. 168: What Does It Say

    Published: 7/17/2019

  7. 167: Material

    Published: 7/16/2019

  8. 166: Variations in Blue

    Published: 7/15/2019

  9. 165: This Is Not a Small Voice

    Published: 7/12/2019

  10. 164: Silence

    Published: 7/11/2019

  11. 163: A Small Needful Fact

    Published: 7/10/2019

  12. 162: Our Valley

    Published: 7/9/2019

  13. 161: [as freedom is a breakfastfood]

    Published: 7/8/2019

  14. 160: Courtyard Fire

    Published: 7/5/2019

  15. 159: from here i saw what happened and i cried

    Published: 7/4/2019

  16. 158: In prison

    Published: 7/3/2019

  17. 157: To the Woman at the United Airlines Check-in Desk at Newark

    Published: 7/2/2019

  18. 156: after the reading

    Published: 7/1/2019

  19. 155: Borderline Mambo

    Published: 6/28/2019

  20. 154: No Apology: A Poemifesto

    Published: 6/27/2019

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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.