The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
1632 Episodes
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813: Forgiveness, Perhaps
Published: 14/02/2023 -
812: September
Published: 13/02/2023 -
811: Possum
Published: 10/02/2023 -
810: There Is No Touchdown Here, Belichick
Published: 9/02/2023 -
809: A Statement from No One, Incorporated
Published: 8/02/2023 -
808: Birds in Home Depot—December
Published: 7/02/2023 -
807: Short Essay on Love
Published: 6/02/2023 -
806: Polycardial
Published: 3/02/2023 -
805: Discourse
Published: 2/02/2023 -
804: Foxglove
Published: 1/02/2023 -
803: In Light of Stars
Published: 31/01/2023 -
802: Heirloom
Published: 30/01/2023 -
801: Landscape with Things
Published: 27/01/2023 -
800: We Wear the Mask
Published: 26/01/2023 -
799: Fragment (Stone)
Published: 25/01/2023 -
798: Improvement
Published: 24/01/2023 -
797: Night Terrors in America
Published: 23/01/2023 -
[encore] 740: Shucking Oysters
Published: 20/01/2023 -
[encore] 552: Hammond B3 Organ Cistern
Published: 19/01/2023 -
[encore] 630: Don't Think
Published: 18/01/2023
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.
