1539 Episodes

  1. 342: Paramount

    Published: 3/17/2020

  2. 341: Defeat

    Published: 3/16/2020

  3. 340: Eliza Harris

    Published: 3/13/2020

  4. 339: Spring

    Published: 3/12/2020

  5. 338: Premonition

    Published: 3/11/2020

  6. 337: Meditation on a Grapefruit

    Published: 3/10/2020

  7. 336: The Obstinate Comedy

    Published: 3/9/2020

  8. 335: I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party

    Published: 3/6/2020

  9. 334: Seeing the Ocean from a Night Flight

    Published: 3/5/2020

  10. 333: In Defense of Small Towns

    Published: 3/4/2020

  11. 332: An excerpt from Gates

    Published: 3/3/2020

  12. 331: "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

    Published: 3/2/2020

  13. 330: Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle

    Published: 2/28/2020

  14. 329: Strawberries and Cream

    Published: 2/27/2020

  15. 328: A Joke about How Old We've Become

    Published: 2/26/2020

  16. 327: Lincoln Town Car

    Published: 2/25/2020

  17. 326: Miz Rosa Rides the Bus

    Published: 2/24/2020

  18. 325: If You're Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You

    Published: 2/21/2020

  19. 324: Of Being Sick and Tired

    Published: 2/20/2020

  20. 323: An excerpt from Personal Effects

    Published: 2/19/2020

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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.