1595 Episodes

  1. 1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres

    Published: 1/17/2025

  2. 1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato

    Published: 1/16/2025

  3. 1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen

    Published: 1/15/2025

  4. 1272: The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

    Published: 1/14/2025

  5. 1271: Refuge by Nehassaiu deGannes

    Published: 1/13/2025

  6. 1270: The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson

    Published: 1/10/2025

  7. 1269: Grace by Orlando Ricardo Menes

    Published: 1/9/2025

  8. 1268: The Pacific by Jennifer Jean

    Published: 1/8/2025

  9. 1267: What the Body Gives Away by Saba Keramati

    Published: 1/7/2025

  10. 1266: Echo by Christina Rossetti

    Published: 1/6/2025

  11. [encore] 1006: Something Sweet by Hannah Lowe

    Published: 1/3/2025

  12. [encore] 964: abundance of light by erica lewis

    Published: 1/2/2025

  13. [encore] 1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield

    Published: 1/1/2025

  14. [encore] 1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer

    Published: 12/31/2024

  15. [encore] 845: Dear Future Me (#12) by Lena Moses-Schmitt

    Published: 12/30/2024

  16. [encore] 1026: Ode to Bones by Lynne Thompson

    Published: 12/27/2024

  17. [encore] 908: After the Farm was Sold to FedEx by Carlie Hoffman

    Published: 12/26/2024

  18. [encore] 1122: Childhood by David Baker

    Published: 12/25/2024

  19. [encore] 1022: Two Shadows by Maurice Manning

    Published: 12/24/2024

  20. [encore] 1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi

    Published: 12/23/2024

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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.