1540 Episodes

  1. 283: When Giving Is All We Have

    Published: 12/25/2019

  2. 282: Waiting for Happiness

    Published: 12/24/2019

  3. 281: Penalty Shot

    Published: 12/23/2019

  4. 280: Outside my Harlem Window

    Published: 12/20/2019

  5. 279: Excerpt from Nature Poem

    Published: 12/19/2019

  6. 278: Thanks

    Published: 12/18/2019

  7. 277: Assail As Sail Ails As

    Published: 12/17/2019

  8. 276: Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive?

    Published: 12/16/2019

  9. 275: What a Cyborg Wants

    Published: 12/13/2019

  10. 274: Initial Encounter with Locals

    Published: 12/12/2019

  11. 273: What Begets What Begets

    Published: 12/11/2019

  12. 272: Double Dutch

    Published: 12/10/2019

  13. 271: Sunlight and Chilies

    Published: 12/9/2019

  14. 270: When I Am Six

    Published: 12/6/2019

  15. 269: For a Lost Fragment

    Published: 12/5/2019

  16. 268: Gate C22

    Published: 12/4/2019

  17. 267: Fly in Our Salad

    Published: 12/3/2019

  18. 266: After You Get Up Early On Memorial Day

    Published: 12/2/2019

  19. 265: Amores Perros

    Published: 11/29/2019

  20. 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua

    Published: 11/28/2019

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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.