The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Hosted by Maggie · American Public Media
4.8from 1,510 ratings
- 1,083
- Episodes
- 668
- Transcribed
- 1,510
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About 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.
- Publisher
- American Public Media
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Sept 2022
- Latest episode
- 11 Nov 2026
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668 of 1,083 episodes have a transcript.
11 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
1600: The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
10 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
1599: Heading Out to Sea by José A. Alcántara
9 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
1598: Advice to a Monolith by Talley V. Kayser
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1600: The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
Published 11 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The thing is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it, and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water, more fit for gills than lungs. […]
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