1550 Episodes

  1. 352: Interesting Times

    Published: 3/31/2020

  2. 351: Fish Heads

    Published: 3/30/2020

  3. 350: Obedience, or the Lying Tale

    Published: 3/27/2020

  4. A message from Tracy

    Published: 3/26/2020

  5. 349: Ikebana

    Published: 3/26/2020

  6. 348: Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

    Published: 3/25/2020

  7. 347: ABC for Refugees

    Published: 3/24/2020

  8. 346: The Long Deployment

    Published: 3/23/2020

  9. 345: The Lovers

    Published: 3/20/2020

  10. 344: Pale Colors in a Tall Field

    Published: 3/19/2020

  11. 343: The Fifth Fact

    Published: 3/18/2020

  12. 342: Paramount

    Published: 3/17/2020

  13. 341: Defeat

    Published: 3/16/2020

  14. 340: Eliza Harris

    Published: 3/13/2020

  15. 339: Spring

    Published: 3/12/2020

  16. 338: Premonition

    Published: 3/11/2020

  17. 337: Meditation on a Grapefruit

    Published: 3/10/2020

  18. 336: The Obstinate Comedy

    Published: 3/9/2020

  19. 335: I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party

    Published: 3/6/2020

  20. 334: Seeing the Ocean from a Night Flight

    Published: 3/5/2020

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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.