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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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1292: Rabbitbrush by Molly McCully Brown contributed by Lukas · Feb 11, 2025
1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett contributed by Lukas · Feb 10, 2025
1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard contributed by Lukas · Feb 7, 2025
1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs contributed by Lukas · Feb 6, 2025
1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison contributed by Lukas · Feb 5, 2025
1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann contributed by Lukas · Feb 4, 2025
1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad contributed by Lukas · Feb 3, 2025
1285: It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell contributed by Lukas · Jan 31, 2025
1284: When You Rise from the Dead I Drive You to the After Party by Melissa Studdard contributed by Lukas · Jan 30, 2025
1283: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Pádraig Ó Tuama contributed by Lukas · Jan 29, 2025
1282: Third Week of Ramadan by Sahar Romani contributed by Lukas · Jan 28, 2025
1281: I Want to Die by Tariq Luthun contributed by Lukas · Jan 27, 2025
1280: If by Imtiaz Dharker contributed by Lukas · Jan 24, 2025
1279: Ode to My Mama and “The Purple Dress,” circa 1992-1993 by Brittany Rogers contributed by Lukas · Jan 23, 2025
1278: things people like to share: by Nuar Alsadir contributed by Lukas · Jan 22, 2025
1277: Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank by Ashanti Anderson contributed by Lukas · Jan 21, 2025
1276: To Be Longing by Elizabeth Willis contributed by Lukas · Jan 20, 2025
1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres contributed by Lukas · Jan 17, 2025
1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato contributed by Lukas · Jan 16, 2025
1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen contributed by Lukas · Jan 15, 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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