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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
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1374: The Terror of New Love! by Tiana Clark
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2025/10/15
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1373: Protection Spell Jar by Cynthia Marie Hoffman
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2025/10/14
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1372: My Body Knows Its Limits by Page Hill Starzinger
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2025/10/13
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1371: At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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2025/10/10
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1356: The Song of Songs of Songs of Songs by Jeremy...
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2025/09/19
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1342: And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said So...
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2025/09/01
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1339: Wind-Related Ripple in the Wheatfield by Mikko...
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2025/08/27
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1333: Crossing the Line by E. Ethelbert Miller
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2025/08/19
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[encore] 784: Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds
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2025/08/15
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[encore] 768: Lately I Am Trying by Sanna Wani
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2025/08/14
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