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.

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Title Date published
1230: Second Paradise by Chard deNiord 2024-11-01
1229: Refugia by Traci Brimhall 2024-10-31
1228: Shelf Life by Nathan Xavier Osorio 2024-10-30
1227: Genetics by Sinead Morrissey 2024-10-29
1226: The Devouring Economy of Nature by Daniel Borzutzky 2024-10-28
1225: After Vallejo by A.B. Spellman 2024-10-25
1224: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel 2024-10-24
1223: Between You and You by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem 2024-10-23
1222: Post- by Corey Van Landingham 2024-10-22
1221: Home Movies: A Sort of Ode by Mary Jo Salter 2024-10-21
1220: Taking Stock by Elaine Equi 2024-10-18
1219: from "Elegy for the Times" by Adonis, translated by Robyn Creswell 2024-10-17
1218: Vulture by Ted Kooser 2024-10-16
1217: Abide by Jake Adam York 2024-10-15
1216: oracle by Duriel E. Harris 2024-10-14
1215: The Clearing by Jane Kenyon 2024-10-11
1214: Grading Rubric by Antonio de Jesús López 2024-10-10
1213: Pacific Power & Light by Michael Dickman 2024-10-09
1212: Eureka! by Jessica Abughattas 2024-10-08
1211: The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert 2024-10-07
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