1539 Episodes

  1. 1279: Ode to My Mama and “The Purple Dress,” circa 1992-1993 by Brittany Rogers

    Published: 1/23/2025

  2. 1278: things people like to share: by Nuar Alsadir

    Published: 1/22/2025

  3. 1277: Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank by Ashanti Anderson

    Published: 1/21/2025

  4. 1276: To Be Longing by Elizabeth Willis

    Published: 1/20/2025

  5. 1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres

    Published: 1/17/2025

  6. 1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato

    Published: 1/16/2025

  7. 1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen

    Published: 1/15/2025

  8. 1272: The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

    Published: 1/14/2025

  9. 1271: Refuge by Nehassaiu deGannes

    Published: 1/13/2025

  10. 1270: The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson

    Published: 1/10/2025

  11. 1269: Grace by Orlando Ricardo Menes

    Published: 1/9/2025

  12. 1268: The Pacific by Jennifer Jean

    Published: 1/8/2025

  13. 1267: What the Body Gives Away by Saba Keramati

    Published: 1/7/2025

  14. 1266: Echo by Christina Rossetti

    Published: 1/6/2025

  15. [encore] 1006: Something Sweet by Hannah Lowe

    Published: 1/3/2025

  16. [encore] 964: abundance of light by erica lewis

    Published: 1/2/2025

  17. [encore] 1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield

    Published: 1/1/2025

  18. [encore] 1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

    Published: 12/31/2024

  19. [encore] 845: Dear Future Me (#12) by Lena Moses-Schmitt

    Published: 12/30/2024

  20. [encore] 1026: Ode to Bones by Lynne Thompson

    Published: 12/27/2024

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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.