The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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Topics: Performing Arts

No. 141 in Arts▼28

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,...

Latest episode1386: [encore] Night of the Living, Night of the Dead by Kim AddonizioOctober 30, 2026 · 7 min

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1. 1386: [encore] Night of the Living, Night of the Dead by Kim AddonizioOctober 30, 2026 · 7 min
2. 1363: [encore] Notes on Beachgrass by Yong-Yu HuangOctober 29, 2026 · 6 min
3. 1360: [encore] Wind, Blue Sky by Susan AizenbergOctober 28, 2026 · 6 min
4. 1354: [encore] Checkout by Caroline BirdOctober 27, 2026 · 6 min
5. 1352: [encore] Blue by Jodie HollanderOctober 26, 2026 · 6 min
6. 1351: [encore] The Happy Middle by Hedgie ChoiOctober 23, 2026 · 7 min
7. 1350: [encore] Real Estate by Richard SikenOctober 22, 2026 · 6 min
8. 1349: [encore] Sati by Vandana KhannaOctober 21, 2026 · 6 min
9. 1345: [encore] Arrangements by Adrienne ChungOctober 20, 2026 · 6 min
10. 1344: [encore] Cento Between the Ending and the End by Cameron Awkward-RichOctober 19, 2026 · 6 min

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