1541 Episodes

  1. 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua

    Published: 11/28/2019

  2. 263: Her Daughter's Eyes

    Published: 11/27/2019

  3. 262: The Season of Phantasmal Peace

    Published: 11/26/2019

  4. 261: Cancer

    Published: 11/25/2019

  5. 260: Morning

    Published: 11/22/2019

  6. 259: Opus from Space

    Published: 11/21/2019

  7. 258: song: for my high school sweetheart

    Published: 11/20/2019

  8. 257: Eros the Contagion

    Published: 11/19/2019

  9. 256: Afterwords

    Published: 11/18/2019

  10. 255: The Old Country

    Published: 11/15/2019

  11. 254: So Much Happiness

    Published: 11/14/2019

  12. 253: The Voyage Nowhere

    Published: 11/13/2019

  13. 252: Frequently Asked Questions: #7

    Published: 11/12/2019

  14. 251: Feet

    Published: 11/11/2019

  15. 250: Passage

    Published: 11/8/2019

  16. 249: Hospital Linens

    Published: 11/7/2019

  17. 248: [They will tell you that I was sick, that I was a drug addict.]

    Published: 11/6/2019

  18. 247: Tide Pool

    Published: 11/5/2019

  19. 246: On Election Day

    Published: 11/4/2019

  20. 245: Push the Week

    Published: 11/1/2019

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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.