1539 Episodes

  1. 940: Survivor

    Published: 8/10/2023

  2. 939: A Guy in a Black SUV

    Published: 8/9/2023

  3. 938: Sorcery

    Published: 8/8/2023

  4. 937: While Shaving

    Published: 8/7/2023

  5. 936: Voyeuristic Intentions

    Published: 8/4/2023

  6. 935: Happy Campus

    Published: 8/3/2023

  7. 934: Labor Theory of Value

    Published: 8/2/2023

  8. 933: Penmanship

    Published: 8/1/2023

  9. 932: Letter to my sister

    Published: 7/31/2023

  10. 931: Epilogue

    Published: 7/28/2023

  11. 930: elegy for the moaner, 2016

    Published: 7/27/2023

  12. 929: this is a library

    Published: 7/26/2023

  13. 928: Prayer

    Published: 7/25/2023

  14. 927: Via Politica

    Published: 7/24/2023

  15. 926: from "The Garden of Limbs"

    Published: 7/21/2023

  16. 925: Country of Water

    Published: 7/20/2023

  17. 924: Theme for the nautical cowboy

    Published: 7/19/2023

  18. 923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé

    Published: 7/18/2023

  19. 922: Not It

    Published: 7/17/2023

  20. 921: Dear Red

    Published: 7/14/2023

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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.