1534 Episodes

  1. 375: The Party

    Published: 5/1/2020

  2. 374: After the Winter

    Published: 4/30/2020

  3. 373: Tracing the Horse

    Published: 4/29/2020

  4. 372: We Always Have Been

    Published: 4/28/2020

  5. 371: What Women Are Made Of

    Published: 4/27/2020

  6. 370: I will praise your plain songs

    Published: 4/24/2020

  7. 369: In Which Our Wants Are Worlds

    Published: 4/23/2020

  8. 368: The Singing Place

    Published: 4/22/2020

  9. 367: After all those years of fear and raging in my poems

    Published: 4/21/2020

  10. 366: Wedding Poem

    Published: 4/20/2020

  11. 365: Peace Path

    Published: 4/17/2020

  12. Our favorite episodes on hope, kindness, and more

    Published: 4/16/2020

  13. 364: Leaving the University Gym

    Published: 4/16/2020

  14. 363: Home

    Published: 4/15/2020

  15. 362: The Bald Truth

    Published: 4/14/2020

  16. 361: Song for the Festival

    Published: 4/13/2020

  17. 360: Hello

    Published: 4/10/2020

  18. 359: Naming Ceremony

    Published: 4/9/2020

  19. 358: Talent

    Published: 4/8/2020

  20. 357: The Third Dimension

    Published: 4/7/2020

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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.