1562 Episodes

  1. 125: Yoko

    Published: 5/17/2019

  2. 124: the break

    Published: 5/16/2019

  3. 123: When Vision Narrows To A Single Beam of Light

    Published: 5/15/2019

  4. 123: When Vision Narrows To A Single Beam of Light

    Published: 5/15/2019

  5. 122: Whipping Tree

    Published: 5/14/2019

  6. 121: A Room of Her Own

    Published: 5/13/2019

  7. 120: What's Left

    Published: 5/10/2019

  8. 119: He Said

    Published: 5/9/2019

  9. 118: Migraine: Aura and Aftermath

    Published: 5/8/2019

  10. 117: To The Republic

    Published: 5/7/2019

  11. 116: Record Changer

    Published: 5/6/2019

  12. 115: Michiko Dead

    Published: 5/3/2019

  13. 114: Burial

    Published: 5/2/2019

  14. 113: First Will & Testament

    Published: 5/1/2019

  15. 112: The Darkling Thrush

    Published: 4/30/2019

  16. 111: Bored

    Published: 4/29/2019

  17. 110: We Lived Happily During The War

    Published: 4/26/2019

  18. 109: Pearl

    Published: 4/25/2019

  19. 108: Backwards

    Published: 4/24/2019

  20. 107: Thank You For Waiting

    Published: 4/23/2019

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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.