1535 Episodes

  1. 795: The End of Poetry

    Published: 10/31/2022

  2. 794: High Fidelity

    Published: 10/28/2022

  3. 793: Children Listen

    Published: 10/27/2022

  4. 792: Trash

    Published: 10/26/2022

  5. 791: Love Poem

    Published: 10/25/2022

  6. 790: Anxiety checks her phone again

    Published: 10/24/2022

  7. 789: hoop snake

    Published: 10/21/2022

  8. 788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash

    Published: 10/20/2022

  9. 787: The Orange

    Published: 10/19/2022

  10. 786: Compassion Comes Late

    Published: 10/18/2022

  11. 785: Magdalene—The Seven Devils

    Published: 10/17/2022

  12. 784: Sex Without Love

    Published: 10/14/2022

  13. 783: The Beginning of the Beginning

    Published: 10/13/2022

  14. 782: The Strength of U

    Published: 10/12/2022

  15. 781: Cut Apple

    Published: 10/11/2022

  16. 780: Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room

    Published: 10/10/2022

  17. 779: My Rock

    Published: 10/7/2022

  18. 778: Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God

    Published: 10/6/2022

  19. 777: The Lightkeeper

    Published: 10/5/2022

  20. 776: Bonfire Brides

    Published: 10/4/2022

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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.