1590 Episodes

  1. 1396: Panama by Sarah Green

    Published: 11/14/2025

  2. 1395: The Night Angler by Geffrey Davis

    Published: 11/13/2025

  3. 1394: Puerto Rico Goes Dark by Juan J. Morales

    Published: 11/12/2025

  4. 1393: The Night Where You No Longer Live by Meghan O’Rourke

    Published: 11/11/2025

  5. 1392: Local Mission by Kai Carlson-Wee

    Published: 11/10/2025

  6. 1391: Never-ending Birds by David Baker

    Published: 11/7/2025

  7. 1390: The Poem Climbs the Scaffold and Tells You What It Sees by Natasha Oladokun

    Published: 11/6/2025

  8. 1389: Sehnsucht by Michael Dumanis

    Published: 11/5/2025

  9. 1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

    Published: 11/4/2025

  10. 1387: Different Kinds of Sadness by Jenny Molberg

    Published: 11/3/2025

  11. 1386: Night of the Living, Night of the Dead by Kim Addonizio

    Published: 10/31/2025

  12. 1385: At Night by Stanley Plumly

    Published: 10/30/2025

  13. 1384: I do not mention the war in my birthplace to my six-year-old son but somehow his body knows by Julia Kolchinsky

    Published: 10/29/2025

  14. 1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse

    Published: 10/28/2025

  15. 1382: Lamb by Richie Hofmann

    Published: 10/27/2025

  16. 1381: What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen

    Published: 10/24/2025

  17. 1380: Like Apple from Seed by Molly Johnsen

    Published: 10/23/2025

  18. 1379: Arkansabop by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

    Published: 10/22/2025

  19. 1378: poem where no one is deported by José Olivarez

    Published: 10/21/2025

  20. 1377: The Crux by Megan Peak

    Published: 10/20/2025

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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.