1556 Episodes

  1. 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi

    Published: 2/23/2022

  2. 616: flight training

    Published: 2/22/2022

  3. 615: The Studio

    Published: 2/21/2022

  4. 614: On Being Asked, "What Is Your Dream Job?"

    Published: 2/18/2022

  5. 613: City Lake

    Published: 2/17/2022

  6. 612: After the Fire

    Published: 2/16/2022

  7. 610: A Valentine

    Published: 2/14/2022

  8. 608: Las Chácharas They Carried

    Published: 2/10/2022

  9. 607: Chelsea Piers

    Published: 2/9/2022

  10. 606: The Lunch Counter of Eternal Tears

    Published: 2/8/2022

  11. 605: Birthday

    Published: 2/7/2022

  12. 604: The Extravagant Stars

    Published: 2/4/2022

  13. 603: Sligo Abbey

    Published: 2/3/2022

  14. 602: The Tyger

    Published: 2/2/2022

  15. 601: Life Preserver

    Published: 2/1/2022

  16. 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar

    Published: 1/31/2022

  17. 599: Fatherteeth

    Published: 1/28/2022

  18. 598: Bioluminescence

    Published: 1/27/2022

  19. 597: Facelift

    Published: 1/26/2022

  20. 596: Prayer of the Palo Verde Beetle

    Published: 1/25/2022

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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.