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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1195: First Kiss by Rooja Mohassessy
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2024-08-30
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1194: Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan
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2024-08-29
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1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin
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2024-08-28
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1192: Narcissus and the Namesake River by Reginald Shepherd
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2024-08-27
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1191: For Mac Miller and 2009 by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
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2024-08-26
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1190: At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room by Pimone Triplett
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2024-08-23
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1189: Nature Poem About Flowers by Matthew Rohrer
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2024-08-22
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1188: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, with special guest adrienne maree brown
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2024-08-21
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1187: Picking Favorites by George Franklin
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2024-08-20
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1186: Oh, y’know, just your standard Q&A by Alex Z. Salinas
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2024-08-19
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1185: Fragment 31 by Sappho, translated by Christopher Childers
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2024-08-16
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1184: End of December by Ashjan Hendi, translated by Moneera Al-Ghadeer
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2024-08-15
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1183: maggie and milly and molly and may by E.E. Cummings, with special guest Eric Whitacre
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2024-08-14
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1182: from “Take Me Back, Burden Hill” by L. Lamar Wilson
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2024-08-13
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1181: Enlightenment by Vijay Seshadri
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2024-08-12
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1180: The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore
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2024-08-09
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1179: Nude by James Kelly Quigley
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2024-08-08
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1178: America by Claude McKay, with special guest Tonya Mosley
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2024-08-07
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1177: Machete: Look by Jasminne Mendez
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2024-08-06
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1176: Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian
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2024-08-05
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