1632 Episodes

  1. [encore] 699: Photosynthesis

    Published: 21/12/2022

  2. [encore] 567: Besaydoo

    Published: 20/12/2022

  3. [encore] 511: Present Tense

    Published: 19/12/2022

  4. [encore] 575: How I Learned Bliss

    Published: 16/12/2022

  5. [encore] 622: Self-Portrait With Woman On The Subway

    Published: 15/12/2022

  6. [encore] 692: Other Women's Babies

    Published: 14/12/2022

  7. [encore] 547: Travel

    Published: 13/12/2022

  8. [encore] 665: Metro-North

    Published: 12/12/2022

  9. [encore] 665: Metro-North

    Published: 12/12/2022

  10. [encore] 559: Parable of Childhood

    Published: 9/12/2022

  11. [encore] 649: sunrise through mount vernon, wa.

    Published: 8/12/2022

  12. [encore] 654: In the End You Get Everything Back (Liza Minnelli)

    Published: 7/12/2022

  13. [encore] 717: Afterlife with a Gentle Afterward

    Published: 6/12/2022

  14. [encore] 509: Wondrous

    Published: 5/12/2022

  15. [encore] 705: The Bats

    Published: 2/12/2022

  16. [encore] 634: Nest

    Published: 1/12/2022

  17. [encore] 519: Missing Cat

    Published: 30/11/2022

  18. [encore] 618: Elegy for Kentucky

    Published: 29/11/2022

  19. [encore] 689: Alive at the End of the World

    Published: 25/11/2022

  20. [encore] 523: Our Valley

    Published: 24/11/2022

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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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