1545 Episodes

  1. [encore] 382: Another Night at Sea Level by Meg Day

    Published: 18/07/2025

  2. [encore] 442: Climbing China's Great Wall by Afaa M. Weaver

    Published: 17/07/2025

  3. [encore] 454: On a Spaceship Somewhere, Long After Empire's Collapse by Jesús I. Valles

    Published: 16/07/2025

  4. [encore] 470: Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry by Jericho Brown

    Published: 15/07/2025

  5. [encore] 393: Song In Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster by Tess Taylor

    Published: 14/07/2025

  6. [encore] 1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon

    Published: 11/07/2025

  7. [encore] 1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Published: 10/07/2025

  8. [encore] 1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

    Published: 9/07/2025

  9. [encore] 1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

    Published: 8/07/2025

  10. [encore] 1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

    Published: 7/07/2025

  11. [encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

    Published: 4/07/2025

  12. [encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse

    Published: 3/07/2025

  13. [encore] 541: Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké

    Published: 2/07/2025

  14. [encore] 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez

    Published: 1/07/2025

  15. [encore] 710: Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko

    Published: 30/06/2025

  16. [encore] 463: To be of use by Marge Piercy

    Published: 27/06/2025

  17. [encore] 403: The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker

    Published: 26/06/2025

  18. [encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres

    Published: 25/06/2025

  19. [encore] 448: Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim

    Published: 24/06/2025

  20. [encore] 377: Moon Pull by Carlina Duan

    Published: 23/06/2025

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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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