1565 Episodes

  1. 1305: An Apology for Trashing Magazines in Which You Appear by Nicole Sealey

    Published: 2/28/2025

  2. 1304: Cinema Paradiso by Claire Booker

    Published: 2/27/2025

  3. 1303: Chaplinesque by Hart Crane

    Published: 2/26/2025

  4. 1302: One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism by Josh Bell

    Published: 2/25/2025

  5. 1301: Jaws by Emma Hine

    Published: 2/24/2025

  6. 1300: Genesis by Megan Pinto

    Published: 2/21/2025

  7. 1299: Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

    Published: 2/20/2025

  8. 1298: Earth, Earth by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

    Published: 2/19/2025

  9. 1297: Jamboree, Evening, Midsummer by Austin Araujo

    Published: 2/18/2025

  10. 1296: In Which I Become (Skywoman) by Kenzie Allen

    Published: 2/17/2025

  11. 1295: Wind Ode by Sharon Olds

    Published: 2/14/2025

  12. 1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts

    Published: 2/13/2025

  13. 1293: Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras

    Published: 2/12/2025

  14. 1292: Rabbitbrush by Molly McCully Brown

    Published: 2/11/2025

  15. 1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett

    Published: 2/10/2025

  16. 1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

    Published: 2/7/2025

  17. 1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs

    Published: 2/6/2025

  18. 1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison

    Published: 2/5/2025

  19. 1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann

    Published: 2/4/2025

  20. 1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad

    Published: 2/3/2025

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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.