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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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[encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by...
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2025/05/23
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[encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong
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2025/05/21
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[encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate
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2025/05/19
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[encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by...
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2025/05/09
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[encore] 547: Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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2025/05/01
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[encore] 1045: Sonnet for Ochún by Leslie Sainz
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2025/04/18
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1322: [as freedom is a breakfastfood] by E.E. Cummings
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2025/03/31
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1317: Grinning in Sardinia by Tomás Q. Morín
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2025/03/21
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1316: Portrait of My Mother Studying for Her...
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2025/03/20
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1294: White Peonies by Reginald Dwayne Betts
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2025/02/13
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