The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

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...

Episodes

1536: i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen

1535: Goldfish by Francisco Márquez

1534: There Is Always Space in My Life for More Life by Natasha Rao

1533: The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith

1532: Blue by Laura Villareal

1531: Cheap Magic by Arielle Hebert

1530: At the End of a Good Week, the Van Broke Down by Mary Ardery

1529: Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew by Ross Gay

1528: Isobutyl Nitrite by Kieron Walquist

1527: Native Grasses by Lynnell Edwards

1526: Missing by Mary Morris

1525: The Burning Kite by Ouyang Jianghe, translated by Austin Woerner

1524: Coral, Again by Juliana Spahr

1523: The Village by Marc Harshman

1522: The Long Run by Linda Gregerson

Bonus Episode — PASSAGES: On Morrison featuring Tracy K. Smith and Namwali Serpell

1521: You Try To Fix It by Liz Ahl

1520: The New City by Hieu Minh Nguyen

1519: At the Entrance of a Love Poem, I Hesitate by Maya C. Popa

1518: On Being Told I Should Write a Memoir by Jan-Henry Gray