@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +đź“š Host of @slowdownshow.org
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"Today's poem is a kind of love poem — to a beloved tree, and to the sense of home it created," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read "Hackberry" by Cecily Parks, from THE SEEDS (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social): bit.ly/4hLEqNK
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"Once upon a time, I was a new mother with a baby girl in my arms, and I was her whole world," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read "A toast to something beautiful flapping in the wind" by J. Hope Stein and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4haVYlb
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"To make things that don't exist yet ... and to send them out into the world is wildly, impractically, gorgeously hopeful," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read "The plum you're going to eat next summer” by @gaylebrandeis.bsky.social: bit.ly/4yCIF45
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social“Today’s poem is from a collection of prose poems that chronicles a woman’s journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder, from childhood into adulthood," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read “Protection Spell Jar" by Cynthia Marie Hoffman: bit.ly/3V1R4iN
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social“Today’s poem is by one of my favorite Kentucky writers, a fellow dog person,” host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today’s encore episode.
Read “For You Who Have Loved Old Dogs" by @silashouse.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4gPxPjK
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"When I was young, the myth of Icarus was one that captured my imagination," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. "Today's poem references this myth — this cautionary tale — in beautiful, unexpected ways."
Read "If Night You Were a City" by Adam Wiedewitsch: bit.ly/4ykGou6
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@adamthek.bsky.socialReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialHere it is: www.npr.org/2026/09/05/n... featuring the insightful and witty @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialAlways good to chat, Peter! Thanks for having me!
@petersagal.bsky.socialReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialThank you (greater) Dayton for coming out and joining us at the Rose Music Center in Huber Heights last night! It was a joyful, if steamy meet-up serenaded by crickets and freeway noise. And special thanks to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for making the trip to join us there.
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"Today's poem addresses a child — a child full of questions about the world," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read "The Long Now" by Robin Beth Schaer and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4hKEm1g
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social“Today's poem looks, tenderly, at two siblings attempting to close the distance between them," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read "Rancho Bar" by Margot Kahn and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4xJRQ20
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social“I know poetry can’t stop bombs from falling, and it can’t feed the starving, and it can’t evacuate people to safety,” shares @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s encore episode. "But poetry can change our inner world."
Read “From the Sky” by Sara Abou Rashed: bit.ly/4zpUw6w
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"There are wonderful, necessary, life-changing adventures to be had by traveling, and still we long to hold and hug and kiss the people who aren't there with us," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read "XII. Southern Constellations" by Brandon Kilbourne: bit.ly/4fYHy8o
@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social"Today’s poem is a long, beautiful strand," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1410 of The Slowdown. "Listen and enjoy."
Read "Go" by Kathleen Ossip and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4zcM7n1
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@slowdownshow.orgReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social“It can be so hard to accept help from others, especially if you pride yourself on being self-sufficient," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode.
Read “Different Kinds of Sadness" by @jennymolberg.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/3UqB1e0
@cloeax.bsky.socialReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialThen go find the podcast and listen to it (all three episodes are out now in WBUR's Dear Sugars feed). You can find it on all the platforms. app.magellan.ai/listen_links...
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialThank you, Cloe!
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialI like your thought process!
@lesleymwheeler.bsky.socialReposted by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.socialSpending the first week of August within these two resonant, powerful collections: House of Sugar, House of Stone about surviving life in a woman’s body, and A Suit or a Suitcase about reintegration after suffering. Kudos to @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social & Emily Pérez! #sealeychallenge
