1533 Episodes

  1. 1093: When Your Month is Lonely… by Christine Kwon

    Published: 4/10/2024

  2. 1092: Eid Mubarak by Fady Joudah

    Published: 4/9/2024

  3. 1091: To Find Stars in Another Language by Elizabeth Bradfield

    Published: 4/8/2024

  4. 1090: My Life by Water by Lorine Niedecker

    Published: 4/5/2024

  5. 1089: The Loquat Trees & The Boy Next Door by Saúl Hernández

    Published: 4/4/2024

  6. 1088: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

    Published: 4/3/2024

  7. 1087: After She Died by Mary Szybist

    Published: 4/2/2024

  8. 1086: It's This Way by Nâzim Hikmet

    Published: 4/1/2024

  9. 1085: Spring View by Du Fu, translated by Arthur Sze

    Published: 3/29/2024

  10. 1084: Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah

    Published: 3/28/2024

  11. 1083: first person by Ed Roberson

    Published: 3/27/2024

  12. 1082: A Certain Light by Marie Howe

    Published: 3/26/2024

  13. 1081: The Leaving by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    Published: 3/25/2024

  14. 1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman

    Published: 3/22/2024

  15. 1079: Cassandra by Sasha West

    Published: 3/21/2024

  16. 1078: Ferment by Monica Rico

    Published: 3/20/2024

  17. 1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn

    Published: 3/19/2024

  18. 1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart

    Published: 3/18/2024

  19. 1075: Translation by Anne Spencer

    Published: 3/15/2024

  20. 1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard

    Published: 3/14/2024

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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.