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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 l...

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[encore] 311: Listen, by Barbara Crooker contributed by Lukas · Jun 2, 2025

[encore] 821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks contributed by Lukas · May 30, 2025

[encore] 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi contributed by Lukas · May 29, 2025

[encore] 1168: Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher contributed by Lukas · May 28, 2025

[encore] 1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh contributed by Lukas · May 27, 2025

[encore] 1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein contributed by Lukas · May 26, 2025

[encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough contributed by Lukas · May 23, 2025

[encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan contributed by Lukas · May 22, 2025

[encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong contributed by Lukas · May 21, 2025

[encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago contributed by Lukas · May 20, 2025

[encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate contributed by Lukas · May 19, 2025

[encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock contributed by Lukas · May 16, 2025

[encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō contributed by Lukas · May 15, 2025

[encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher contributed by Lukas · May 14, 2025

[encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong contributed by Lukas · May 13, 2025

[encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla contributed by Lukas · May 12, 2025

[encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne contributed by Lukas · May 9, 2025

[encore] 995: Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron contributed by Lukas · May 8, 2025

[encore] 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin contributed by Lukas · May 7, 2025

[encore] 860: Learning Money in Reverse by Stephanie Niu contributed by Lukas · May 6, 2025

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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 c...

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