1555 Episodes

  1. 736: For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard

    Published: 8/9/2022

  2. 735: Deep Learning

    Published: 8/8/2022

  3. 734: A Man in My Bed Like Cracker Crumbs

    Published: 8/5/2022

  4. 733: Disease Is Not the Only Thing That Spreads

    Published: 8/4/2022

  5. 732: Caregiving

    Published: 8/3/2022

  6. 731: no name in the street

    Published: 8/2/2022

  7. 730: Borderland Apocrypha

    Published: 8/1/2022

  8. 729: Fiery Young Colored Girl

    Published: 7/29/2022

  9. 728: Grief Symphony

    Published: 7/28/2022

  10. 727: Ode to the Crossfader

    Published: 7/27/2022

  11. 726: After Abolition

    Published: 7/26/2022

  12. 725: Black Light

    Published: 7/25/2022

  13. 724: Conditionally

    Published: 7/22/2022

  14. 723: Divorce

    Published: 7/21/2022

  15. 722: Ghazal for Dogeaters

    Published: 7/20/2022

  16. 721: Self-Portrait as Duckie Dale

    Published: 7/19/2022

  17. 720: The Trees are Down

    Published: 7/18/2022

  18. 719: Museum of Sex

    Published: 7/15/2022

  19. 718: Weeding

    Published: 7/14/2022

  20. 717: Afterlife with a Gentle Afterward

    Published: 7/13/2022

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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.