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
1300: Genesis by Megan Pinto 2025-02-21
1299: Hello, the Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2025-02-20
1298: Earth, Earth by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson 2025-02-19
1297: Jamboree, Evening, Midsummer by Austin Araujo 2025-02-18
1296: In Which I Become (Skywoman) by Kenzie Allen 2025-02-17
1295: Wind Ode by Sharon Olds 2025-02-14
1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts 2025-02-13
1293: Washing the Elephant by Barbara Ras 2025-02-12
1292: Rabbitbrush by Molly McCully Brown 2025-02-11
1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett 2025-02-10
1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard 2025-02-07
1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs 2025-02-06
1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison 2025-02-05
1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann 2025-02-04
1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad 2025-02-03
1285: It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell 2025-01-31
1284: When You Rise from the Dead I Drive You to the After Party by Melissa Studdard 2025-01-30
1283: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Pádraig Ó Tuama 2025-01-29
1282: Third Week of Ramadan by Sahar Romani 2025-01-28
1281: I Want to Die by Tariq Luthun 2025-01-27
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