The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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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- 1336: I Find Myself Defending Pigeons by Keith S. Wilson 22.08.2025
- 1335: Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris 21.08.2025
- 1334: Étude by Amy Gerstler 20.08.2025
- 1333: Crossing the Line by E. Ethelbert Miller 19.08.2025
- 1332: Tea by Leila Chatti 18.08.2025
- [encore] 784: Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds 15.08.2025
- [encore] 768: Lately I Am Trying by Sanna Wani 14.08.2025
- [encore] 520: I Worry My Mother Will Die and I Will Know Nothing by Asa Drake 13.08.2025
- [encore] 792: Trash by Joshua Bennett 12.08.2025
- [encore] 688: [since feeling is first] by E.E. Cummings 11.08.2025
- [encore] 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua by Tami Haaland 08.08.2025
- [encore] 351: Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva 07.08.2025
- [encore] 278: Thanks by W.S. Merwin 06.08.2025
- Maggie Smith is the New Host of The Slowdown 05.08.2025
- [encore] 237: Workshop by Jacob Shores-Argüello 04.08.2025
- [encore] 961: Nocturne by Oliver Baez Bendorf 01.08.2025
- [encore] 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford 31.07.2025
- [encore] 1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez 30.07.2025
- [encore] 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch 29.07.2025
- [encore] 1005: eco-hood by Melania Luisa Marte 28.07.2025
