1638 Episodes

  1. 1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso

    Published: 12/27/2023

  2. 1028: Yet, the Loveliness

    Published: 12/26/2023

  3. 1027: The Memory of the Young

    Published: 12/25/2023

  4. 1026: Ode to Bones

    Published: 12/22/2023

  5. 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

    Published: 12/21/2023

  6. 1024: Ashes

    Published: 12/20/2023

  7. 1023: Hurrying Toward the Present

    Published: 12/19/2023

  8. 1022: Two Shadows

    Published: 12/18/2023

  9. 1021: Making Things

    Published: 12/15/2023

  10. 1020: Ithaka

    Published: 12/14/2023

  11. 1019: Ambition

    Published: 12/13/2023

  12. 1018: Cuffing Season

    Published: 12/12/2023

  13. 1017: Parallel Worlds

    Published: 12/11/2023

  14. 1016: In the Seam of Life

    Published: 12/8/2023

  15. 1015: Death Letter #2

    Published: 12/7/2023

  16. 1014: Date

    Published: 12/6/2023

  17. 1013: Reading Poetry in Illness

    Published: 12/5/2023

  18. 1012: Morning Glory

    Published: 12/4/2023

  19. 1011: Bloodroot

    Published: 12/1/2023

  20. 1010: Self-care Bucket List

    Published: 11/30/2023

28 / 82

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.