1561 Episodes

  1. 324: Of Being Sick and Tired

    Published: 2/20/2020

  2. 323: An excerpt from Personal Effects

    Published: 2/19/2020

  3. 322: Northeast Corridor

    Published: 2/18/2020

  4. 321: Inheritance

    Published: 2/17/2020

  5. 320: How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This

    Published: 2/14/2020

  6. 319: A Year Dot

    Published: 2/13/2020

  7. 318: Hurricane

    Published: 2/12/2020

  8. 317: Meditation on Beauty

    Published: 2/11/2020

  9. 316: He Dreams of Falling

    Published: 2/10/2020

  10. 315: I Will Love You Most When I Can Barely Remember Anything

    Published: 2/7/2020

  11. 314: Domestic

    Published: 2/6/2020

  12. 313: Abeyance

    Published: 2/5/2020

  13. 312: Return

    Published: 2/4/2020

  14. 311: Listen,

    Published: 2/3/2020

  15. 310: Mother Mind

    Published: 1/31/2020

  16. 309: Ships That Pass in the Night

    Published: 1/30/2020

  17. 308: Let Me Tell You

    Published: 1/29/2020

  18. 307: Pomegranate Means Grenade

    Published: 1/28/2020

  19. 306: Essay on Reentry

    Published: 1/27/2020

  20. 305: Wake Up

    Published: 1/24/2020

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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.