The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Hosted by Maggie and Myka Kielbon · American Public Media
4.8from 1,508 ratings
- 1,047
- Episodes
- 542
- Transcribed
- 1,508
- 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
- 22 Sept 2026
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542 of 1,047 episodes have a transcript.
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[encore] 1347: Animal Prudence by Kathy Fagan
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[encore] 1336: I Find Myself Defending Pigeons by Keith S. Wilson
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[encore] 1507: How to Dress a Star by Nicholas Goodly
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] When we revisit the past, we find it a changed place. We are the ones who change it. with our new perspective and knowledge. For example, if I were writing my memoir now, it would be a different book. I'd bring my current understanding and my current emotional state to every personal story, every conversation, every memory. If I wrote the book 20 years from now, it would be yet another book. If I wrote about my childhood now, I would describe it differently than I would have described it when I was in it. When the consciousness behind the narrative changes, so does the narrative. When the storyteller is transformed, so is the story. […]
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Maggie and Myka Kielbon host the show. Published by American Public Media.
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