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1601: Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle by Mary Szybist
12/11/2026 | 4 mins.Today’s poem is Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle by Mary Szybist.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem eavesdrops on two girls playing together, and I find the dialogue between them so charming.”
This show is supported by gifts from listeners. Support The Slowdown with a donation today. slowdownshow.org/donate1600: The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
11/11/2026 | 5 mins.Today’s poem is The Thing Is by Ellen Bass.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem is one that I seek out, and one that I’m always glad to come across in the wild.”
This show is supported by gifts from listeners. Support The Slowdown with a donation today. slowdownshow.org/donate1599: Heading Out to Sea by José A. Alcántara
10/11/2026 | 5 mins.Today’s poem is Heading Out to Sea by José A. Alcántara.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “The truth is, all bodies are imperfect. But today’s poem reminds me, importantly, that this body is the only one I have. There’s no “spare,” no back up, no alternative. When I think of it that way, it’s impossible not to be grateful.”
This show is supported by gifts from listeners. Support The Slowdown with a donation today. slowdownshow.org/donate1598: Advice to a Monolith by Talley V. Kayser
09/11/2026 | 5 mins.Today’s poem is Advice to a Monolith by Talley V. Kayser.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Landscape is psychological. It impacts how we feel, how we see ourselves, how we understand our experience. When you change the landscape, you change everything!”
This show is supported by gifts from listeners. Support The Slowdown with a donation today. slowdownshow.org/donate1597: On Children by Kahlil Gibran
06/11/2026 | 5 mins.Today’s poem is On Children by Kahlil Gibran.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “I’ve always believed my son and daughter came through me, not to me, like I’m the door they used to enter the world. In this way, I feel like they’ve been loaned to me, and my job is to be a steward and a guide while they’re young. Today’s poem articulates that better than I can here, and I think that’s what we turn to poems for: to tell us the truth, and to tell it beautifully.”
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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.
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