1530 Episodes

  1. 1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett

    Published: 8/23/2024

  2. 1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer

    Published: 8/22/2024

  3. 1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown

    Published: 8/21/2024

  4. 1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin

    Published: 8/20/2024

  5. 1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas

    Published: 8/19/2024

  6. 1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers

    Published: 8/16/2024

  7. 1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

    Published: 8/15/2024

  8. 1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre

    Published: 8/14/2024

  9. 1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson

    Published: 8/13/2024

  10. 1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri

    Published: 8/12/2024

  11. 1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore

    Published: 8/9/2024

  12. 1179: Nude by James Kelly Quigley

    Published: 8/8/2024

  13. 1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley

    Published: 8/7/2024

  14. 1177: Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez

    Published: 8/6/2024

  15. 1176: Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian

    Published: 8/5/2024

  16. 1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon

    Published: 8/2/2024

  17. 1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Published: 8/1/2024

  18. 1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

    Published: 7/31/2024

  19. 1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

    Published: 7/30/2024

  20. 1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

    Published: 7/29/2024

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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.