1556 Episodes

  1. 637: ATLien Freestyles Over "Wheelz of Steel"

    Published: 3/23/2022

  2. 636: How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now

    Published: 3/22/2022

  3. 635: until the meteor makes a shadow over home

    Published: 3/21/2022

  4. 634: Nest

    Published: 3/18/2022

  5. 633: The Moth

    Published: 3/17/2022

  6. 632: Touch Cave

    Published: 3/16/2022

  7. 631: Every Mourning

    Published: 3/15/2022

  8. 630: Don’t Think

    Published: 3/14/2022

  9. 629: Halfway

    Published: 3/11/2022

  10. 628: I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame

    Published: 3/10/2022

  11. 627: Don't Say Love Just Signal

    Published: 3/9/2022

  12. 626: Explication on a Nude Photograph Taken After Hours at the Bright Beach

    Published: 3/8/2022

  13. 625: Not everything is a poem

    Published: 3/7/2022

  14. 624: Sunflowers in the Median

    Published: 3/4/2022

  15. 623: What Do You Want to Do Today

    Published: 3/3/2022

  16. 622: Self-Portrait With Woman On The Subway

    Published: 3/2/2022

  17. 621: The Wrong Question More Than Once

    Published: 3/1/2022

  18. 620: Egrets

    Published: 2/28/2022

  19. 619: Without Enchantment

    Published: 2/25/2022

  20. 618: Elegy for Kentucky

    Published: 2/24/2022

47 / 78

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.