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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| 1125: English by Janel Pineda | 2024-05-24 | ||
| 1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson | 2024-05-23 | ||
| 1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay | 2024-05-22 | ||
| 1122: Childhood by David Baker | 2024-05-21 | ||
| 1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis | 2024-05-20 | ||
| 1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller | 2024-05-17 | ||
| 1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White | 2024-05-16 | ||
| 1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona | 2024-05-15 | ||
| 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 2024-05-14 | ||
| 1116: Mercy by Dessa | 2024-05-13 | ||
| 1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza | 2024-05-10 | ||
| 1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky | 2024-05-09 | ||
| 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi | 2024-05-08 | ||
| 1112: Sl(e)ight by Alice White | 2024-05-07 | ||
| 1111: The Nation by Roy Fisher | 2024-05-06 | ||
| 1110: Blue Hour by Chanda Feldman | 2024-05-03 | ||
| 1109: Never Did Say So by Caridad Moro-Gronlier | 2024-05-02 | ||
| 1108: Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux | 2024-05-01 | ||
| 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford | 2024-04-30 |