1535 Episodes

  1. [encore] 373: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado

    Published: 6/6/2025

  2. [encore] 459: The Feeling by Ari Banias

    Published: 6/5/2025

  3. [encore] 303: Telling My Father by James Crews

    Published: 6/4/2025

  4. [encore] 9: Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal by Kaveh Akbar

    Published: 6/3/2025

  5. [encore] 311: Listen, by Barbara Crooker

    Published: 6/2/2025

  6. [encore] 821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks

    Published: 5/30/2025

  7. [encore] 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi

    Published: 5/29/2025

  8. [encore] 1168: Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher

    Published: 5/28/2025

  9. [encore] 1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

    Published: 5/27/2025

  10. [encore] 1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein

    Published: 5/26/2025

  11. [encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough

    Published: 5/23/2025

  12. [encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan

    Published: 5/22/2025

  13. [encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong

    Published: 5/21/2025

  14. [encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago

    Published: 5/20/2025

  15. [encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate

    Published: 5/19/2025

  16. [encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock

    Published: 5/16/2025

  17. [encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō

    Published: 5/15/2025

  18. [encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher

    Published: 5/14/2025

  19. [encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong

    Published: 5/13/2025

  20. [encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla

    Published: 5/12/2025

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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.