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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 Arte Entretenimiento y Artes Escénicas
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  • [encore] 1376: Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn

    [encore] 1376: Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn
    Dec 5 2025

    Today’s poem is Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn.


    The Slowdown is taking a week to return to some of our favorite episodes from Maggie’s tenure so far. We’ll be back on Monday, December 15 with new episodes. Today’s episode was originally released on October 17, 2025.


    In this episode, Maggie writes… A big part of loving someone, whether they’re a friend or a family member or someone you’re romantically involved with, is embracing them exactly as they are. Not hoping they’ll change, or waiting for them to change, or—worst of all—trying to change them yourself.”


    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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    6 m
  • [encore] 1343: /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile

    [encore] 1343: /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile
    Dec 11 2025

    Today’s poem is /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile.


    The Slowdown is taking a week to return to some of our favorite episodes from Maggie’s tenure so far. We’ll be back on Monday, December 15 with new episodes. Today’s episode was originally released on September 2, 2025.


    In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem looks at the word migrant and its meaning apart from the current political climate. Movement from place to place, after all, suggests possibility, opportunity, and AGENCY. To migrate, whether you can fly or not, is to be free.”


    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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    6 m
  • [encore] 1368: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace

    [encore] 1368: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace
    Dec 10 2025

    Today’s poem is Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace.


    The Slowdown is taking a week to return to some of our favorite episodes from Maggie’s tenure so far. We’ll be back on Monday, December 15 with new episodes.


    Today’s episode was originally released on October 7, 2025. In this episode, Maggie writes… “The next time I’m asked if writing is therapy, I may just respond by reading today’s poem. I think it answers the question with succinct, heartbreaking beauty.”


    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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    5 m
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