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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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 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.Copyright 2025 Minnesota Public Radio Kunst Unterhaltung & Darstellende Künste
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  • 1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse

    1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse
    Oct 28 2025

    Today’s poem is The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse.


    The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “This poem has me thinking more and more about chance, and about our circumstances. It also has me thinking about the ways we take care of one another, and how we can—and must—do BETTER. As James Baldwin famously wrote, 'The children are always ours.'"


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    6 Min.
  • 1382: Lamb by Richie Hofmann

    1382: Lamb by Richie Hofmann
    Oct 27 2025

    Today’s poem is Lamb by Richie Hofmann.


    The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem brought me right back to being a young girl with a beloved doll. Back then, it would have been unbearable to be separated.”


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    5 Min.
  • 1381: What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen

    1381: What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen
    Oct 24 2025

    Today’s poem is What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen.


    The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Going to the elementary school choir concerts and winter music festivals, I got teary every time the kids sang. I told myself it was because of their sweet, little-kid voices, but that’s not the whole story. Something about hearing voices in unison—it’s powerful, and communal, and comforting, and deeply moving.”


    Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp
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    7 Min.
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