1562 Episodes

  1. 165: This Is Not a Small Voice

    Published: 7/12/2019

  2. 164: Silence

    Published: 7/11/2019

  3. 163: A Small Needful Fact

    Published: 7/10/2019

  4. 162: Our Valley

    Published: 7/9/2019

  5. 161: [as freedom is a breakfastfood]

    Published: 7/8/2019

  6. 160: Courtyard Fire

    Published: 7/5/2019

  7. 159: from here i saw what happened and i cried

    Published: 7/4/2019

  8. 158: In prison

    Published: 7/3/2019

  9. 157: To the Woman at the United Airlines Check-in Desk at Newark

    Published: 7/2/2019

  10. 156: after the reading

    Published: 7/1/2019

  11. 155: Borderline Mambo

    Published: 6/28/2019

  12. 154: No Apology: A Poemifesto

    Published: 6/27/2019

  13. 153: The Heaven of Animals

    Published: 6/26/2019

  14. 152: Europa Nostra

    Published: 6/25/2019

  15. 151: The Fitting

    Published: 6/24/2019

  16. 150: On Time

    Published: 6/21/2019

  17. 149: Red Rover

    Published: 6/20/2019

  18. 148: The Clam

    Published: 6/19/2019

  19. 147: Changeling

    Published: 6/18/2019

  20. 146: The White Fires of Venus

    Published: 6/17/2019

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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.