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
[encore] 476: Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens 2025-04-25
[encore] 499: Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster 2025-04-24
[encore] 143: Untitled by Sesshu Foster 2025-04-23
[encore] 282: Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone 2025-04-22
[encore] 305: Wake Up by Carl Phillips 2025-04-21
[encore] 1045: Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz 2025-04-18
[encore] 865: Worry (the Dybbuk) by Anthony Immergluck 2025-04-17
[encore] 915: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? by Garrett Hongo 2025-04-16
[encore] 848: Six for Gold by Kate Hanson Foster 2025-04-15
[encore] 846: Some Madness There by Charlotte Pence 2025-04-14
1331: The Party is Downstairs by Didi Jackson 2025-04-11
1330: Playback by Lauren Camp 2025-04-10
1329: Mantle by Kevin Young 2025-04-09
1328: Forge by Ethel Rackin 2025-04-08
1327: Gertrude: In the Rooms by Kate Daniels 2025-04-07
1326: The Slowdown Live 2025-04-04
1325: Flame by C.D. Wright 2025-04-03
1324: Why I Write Poetry by Major Jackson 2025-04-02
1323: The Ways of Remembering Women by Lynne Thompson 2025-04-01
1322: [as freedom is a breakfastfood] by E.E. Cummings 2025-03-31
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