1550 Episodes

  1. 114: Burial

    Published: 5/2/2019

  2. 113: First Will & Testament

    Published: 5/1/2019

  3. 112: The Darkling Thrush

    Published: 4/30/2019

  4. 111: Bored

    Published: 4/29/2019

  5. 110: We Lived Happily During The War

    Published: 4/26/2019

  6. 109: Pearl

    Published: 4/25/2019

  7. 108: Backwards

    Published: 4/24/2019

  8. 107: Thank You For Waiting

    Published: 4/23/2019

  9. 106: Lake Michigan, Scene 3

    Published: 4/23/2019

  10. 105: I Just Hope I Can Sleep

    Published: 4/19/2019

  11. 104: Poem for an Antique Korean Fisher Bobber

    Published: 4/18/2019

  12. 103: The Skylark

    Published: 4/17/2019

  13. 102: Love Poem

    Published: 4/16/2019

  14. 101: Postcards from the Labyrinth

    Published: 4/15/2019

  15. 100: New World Orchestra

    Published: 4/12/2019

  16. 99: Philadelphia

    Published: 4/11/2019

  17. 98: stunt

    Published: 4/10/2019

  18. 97: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["You don't seem to want it, but you wanted it"]

    Published: 4/9/2019

  19. 96: The Sun Rising

    Published: 4/8/2019

  20. 95: A Very Good Dog

    Published: 4/5/2019

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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.