1550 Episodes

  1. 491: aubade for the whole hood

    Published: 10/12/2020

  2. 490: And We Love Life

    Published: 10/9/2020

  3. 489: Pigeon and Hawk

    Published: 10/8/2020

  4. 488: Bedtime Story

    Published: 10/7/2020

  5. 487: Reports of the Dream You're Not Likely to Recover From

    Published: 10/6/2020

  6. 486: Mount Rushmore

    Published: 10/5/2020

  7. 485: The Bald Truth

    Published: 10/2/2020

  8. 484: Letter to the Local Police

    Published: 10/1/2020

  9. 483: Bring Now the Angels

    Published: 9/30/2020

  10. 482: Nightingale Pledge

    Published: 9/29/2020

  11. 481: brown and black people on shark tank

    Published: 9/28/2020

  12. 480: Blues for Almost Forgotten Music

    Published: 9/25/2020

  13. 479: The Piano Speaks

    Published: 9/24/2020

  14. 478: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

    Published: 9/23/2020

  15. 477: Groovin' Low

    Published: 9/22/2020

  16. 476: Minneapolipstick

    Published: 9/21/2020

  17. 475: Some Call It God

    Published: 9/18/2020

  18. 474: In the middle of Metro Manila's water crisis, my mother posts a picture of my siblings in a swimming pool

    Published: 9/17/2020

  19. 473: AQUÍ HAY TODO, MIJA

    Published: 9/16/2020

  20. 472: We Have Been Believers

    Published: 9/15/2020

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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.