1545 Episodes

  1. [encore] 784: Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds

    Published: 15/08/2025

  2. [encore] 768: Lately I Am Trying by Sanna Wani

    Published: 14/08/2025

  3. [encore] 520: I Worry My Mother Will Die and I Will Know Nothing by Asa Drake

    Published: 13/08/2025

  4. [encore] 792: Trash by Joshua Bennett

    Published: 12/08/2025

  5. [encore] 688: [since feeling is first] by E.E. Cummings

    Published: 11/08/2025

  6. [encore] 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua by Tami Haaland

    Published: 8/08/2025

  7. [encore] 351: Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva

    Published: 7/08/2025

  8. [encore] 278: Thanks by W.S. Merwin

    Published: 6/08/2025

  9. Maggie Smith is the New Host of The Slowdown

    Published: 5/08/2025

  10. [encore] 237: Workshop by Jacob Shores-Argüello

    Published: 4/08/2025

  11. [encore] 961: Nocturne by Oliver Baez Bendorf

    Published: 1/08/2025

  12. [encore] 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford

    Published: 31/07/2025

  13. [encore] 1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez

    Published: 30/07/2025

  14. [encore] 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

    Published: 29/07/2025

  15. [encore] 1005: eco-hood by Melania Luisa Marte

    Published: 28/07/2025

  16. [encore] 624: Sunflowers in the Median

    Published: 25/07/2025

  17. [encore] 526: Saudade

    Published: 24/07/2025

  18. [encore] 645: It’s 9:30am, I’ve ran four miles, cried four times, & eaten two chicken sandwiches

    Published: 23/07/2025

  19. [encore] 510: Let Me

    Published: 22/07/2025

  20. [encore] 788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash

    Published: 21/07/2025

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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.

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