The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
1600 Episodes
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1080: Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
Published: 3/22/2024 -
1079: Cassandra by Sasha West
Published: 3/21/2024 -
1078: Ferment by Monica Rico
Published: 3/20/2024 -
1077: “Something About…” by Peter Kahn
Published: 3/19/2024 -
1076: a story from the eighties by Debra Marquart
Published: 3/18/2024 -
1075: Translation by Anne Spencer
Published: 3/15/2024 -
1074: My Father and I Drive to St. Louis for His Mother's Funeral and the Wildflowers by Chaun Ballard
Published: 3/14/2024 -
1073: Great Question by Lisa Olstein
Published: 3/13/2024 -
1072: Under the Bed by Kirun Kapur
Published: 3/12/2024 -
1071: Ode to the Idea of France by Dan Alter
Published: 3/11/2024 -
1070: Thirteen by Anna V.Q. Ross
Published: 3/8/2024 -
1069: An Exchange by Corey Marks
Published: 3/7/2024 -
1068: Fish Pier, Santa Monica by Vernon Duke
Published: 3/6/2024 -
1067: blues-elegy for cheryl by Evie Shockley
Published: 3/5/2024 -
1066: Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon
Published: 3/4/2024 -
1065: First of March by Stacie Cassarino
Published: 3/1/2024 -
1064: Dry Spell by Lisa Sewell
Published: 2/29/2024 -
1063: Love Poem by Sophie Cabot Black
Published: 2/28/2024 -
1062: A Response to the Misguided Student by Wesley Rothman
Published: 2/27/2024 -
1061: Mirror, Mirror by Tom Healy
Published: 2/26/2024
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.
