1540 Episodes

  1. 303: Telling My Father

    Published: 1/22/2020

  2. 302: Swimming in the Rain

    Published: 1/21/2020

  3. 301: Confession

    Published: 1/20/2020

  4. 300: Privacy

    Published: 1/17/2020

  5. 299: Weight

    Published: 1/16/2020

  6. 298: Snow-flakes

    Published: 1/15/2020

  7. 297: The Clock

    Published: 1/14/2020

  8. 296: Making Zelnik at the Sibling Reunion

    Published: 1/13/2020

  9. 295: Voice

    Published: 1/10/2020

  10. 294: The Cup

    Published: 1/9/2020

  11. 293: Sitting Down to Breakfast Alone

    Published: 1/8/2020

  12. 292: Remember

    Published: 1/7/2020

  13. 291: Jabberwocky

    Published: 1/6/2020

  14. 290: The Birds of New York

    Published: 1/3/2020

  15. 289: The Traveling Onion

    Published: 1/2/2020

  16. 288: On the Turning of the Year

    Published: 1/1/2020

  17. 287: Prayer On Aladdin's Lamp

    Published: 12/31/2019

  18. 286: How We Programmed the Apocalypse

    Published: 12/30/2019

  19. 285: Kerosene Litany

    Published: 12/27/2019

  20. 284: Holy

    Published: 12/26/2019

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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.