1550 Episodes

  1. 94: Anna May Wong on Silent Films

    Published: 4/4/2019

  2. 93: Purple Bathing Suit

    Published: 4/3/2019

  3. 92: Always Alone

    Published: 4/2/2019

  4. 91: Consider Me

    Published: 4/1/2019

  5. 90: Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother

    Published: 3/29/2019

  6. 89: Crowning

    Published: 3/28/2019

  7. 88: Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder

    Published: 3/27/2019

  8. 87: The Space Between Skins Is Called A Wound

    Published: 3/26/2019

  9. 86: Black cricket in the doorway, on the ceiling, in

    Published: 3/25/2019

  10. 85: Night Surrender

    Published: 3/22/2019

  11. 84: Storm

    Published: 3/21/2019

  12. 83: Spring and Fall

    Published: 3/20/2019

  13. 82: I Watch Her Eat the Apple

    Published: 3/19/2019

  14. 81: Parable of a Firstborn

    Published: 3/18/2019

  15. 80: Muse

    Published: 3/15/2019

  16. 79: Trans Is Against Nostalgia

    Published: 3/14/2019

  17. 78: Introduction to Patriarchy

    Published: 3/13/2019

  18. 77: Utsuroi

    Published: 3/12/2019

  19. 76: Listen

    Published: 3/11/2019

  20. 75: The Unwritten

    Published: 3/8/2019

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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.