1550 Episodes

  1. 153: The Heaven of Animals

    Published: 6/26/2019

  2. 152: Europa Nostra

    Published: 6/25/2019

  3. 151: The Fitting

    Published: 6/24/2019

  4. 150: On Time

    Published: 6/21/2019

  5. 149: Red Rover

    Published: 6/20/2019

  6. 148: The Clam

    Published: 6/19/2019

  7. 147: Changeling

    Published: 6/18/2019

  8. 146: The White Fires of Venus

    Published: 6/17/2019

  9. 145: Mighty Pawns

    Published: 6/14/2019

  10. 144: The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians

    Published: 6/13/2019

  11. 143: Untitled Poem

    Published: 6/12/2019

  12. 142: Ozymandias

    Published: 6/11/2019

  13. 141: Ego

    Published: 6/10/2019

  14. 140: To the Thawing Wind

    Published: 6/7/2019

  15. 139: Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing

    Published: 6/6/2019

  16. 138: Still Life with Aspirin

    Published: 6/5/2019

  17. 137: What Kind of Times Are These

    Published: 6/4/2019

  18. 136: Where There Were Steep Riverbanks

    Published: 6/3/2019

  19. 135: Circe

    Published: 5/31/2019

  20. 134: Beehive

    Published: 5/30/2019

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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.