1550 Episodes

  1. 74: Waking Up

    Published: 3/7/2019

  2. 73: If They Come for Us

    Published: 3/6/2019

  3. 72: Bat

    Published: 3/5/2019

  4. 71: Naomi

    Published: 3/4/2019

  5. 70: On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna

    Published: 3/1/2019

  6. 69: On Days When We Both Travel

    Published: 2/28/2019

  7. 68: The Line-Up

    Published: 2/27/2019

  8. 67: Out of Some Other Paradise

    Published: 2/26/2019

  9. 66: Still Life with Little Brother

    Published: 2/25/2019

  10. 65: Kosmos

    Published: 2/22/2019

  11. 64: I like to see it lap the Miles

    Published: 2/21/2019

  12. 63: Wind

    Published: 2/20/2019

  13. 62: supply and demand

    Published: 2/19/2019

  14. 61: Europe

    Published: 2/18/2019

  15. 60: Tamed

    Published: 2/15/2019

  16. 59: Coming Out

    Published: 2/14/2019

  17. 58: The Singing School

    Published: 2/13/2019

  18. 57: In Memory of Shame

    Published: 2/12/2019

  19. 56: Name That Means Holy in Greek

    Published: 2/11/2019

  20. 55: America (peaches)

    Published: 2/8/2019

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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.