The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
A podcast by American Public Media
1636 Episodes
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[encore] 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Published: 9/2/2024 -
1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
Published: 8/30/2024 -
1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
Published: 8/29/2024 -
1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
Published: 8/28/2024 -
1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
Published: 8/27/2024 -
1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Published: 8/26/2024 -
1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
Published: 8/23/2024 -
1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer
Published: 8/22/2024 -
1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
Published: 8/21/2024 -
1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin
Published: 8/20/2024 -
1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas
Published: 8/19/2024 -
1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
Published: 8/16/2024 -
1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Published: 8/15/2024 -
1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
Published: 8/14/2024 -
1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
Published: 8/13/2024 -
1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri
Published: 8/12/2024 -
1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore
Published: 8/9/2024 -
1179: Nude by James Kelly Quigley
Published: 8/8/2024 -
1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley
Published: 8/7/2024 -
1177: Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez
Published: 8/6/2024
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.
