1535 Episodes

  1. 1026: Ode to Bones

    Published: 12/22/2023

  2. 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

    Published: 12/21/2023

  3. 1024: Ashes

    Published: 12/20/2023

  4. 1023: Hurrying Toward the Present

    Published: 12/19/2023

  5. 1022: Two Shadows

    Published: 12/18/2023

  6. 1021: Making Things

    Published: 12/15/2023

  7. 1020: Ithaka

    Published: 12/14/2023

  8. 1019: Ambition

    Published: 12/13/2023

  9. 1018: Cuffing Season

    Published: 12/12/2023

  10. 1017: Parallel Worlds

    Published: 12/11/2023

  11. 1016: In the Seam of Life

    Published: 12/8/2023

  12. 1015: Death Letter #2

    Published: 12/7/2023

  13. 1014: Date

    Published: 12/6/2023

  14. 1013: Reading Poetry in Illness

    Published: 12/5/2023

  15. 1012: Morning Glory

    Published: 12/4/2023

  16. 1011: Bloodroot

    Published: 12/1/2023

  17. 1010: Self-care Bucket List

    Published: 11/30/2023

  18. 1009: Teleology

    Published: 11/29/2023

  19. 1008: Kinds of Silence

    Published: 11/28/2023

  20. 1007: To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem

    Published: 11/27/2023

23 / 77

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.