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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
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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 go on a walk in your neighborhood, as you pull away from the to-do list, as you resist the dismal, endless scroll to share five minutes of perspective through the lens of poetry, from poets old and new, well-loved and emerging onto the scene.
Brought to you by American Public Media, in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
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[encore] 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall
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Today’s poem is I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall.
The Slowdown is currently taking a break.
We’ll be back soon with new episodes from a new host.
This week, we’re going back into the archive to revisit Ada Limón’s time as host.
Today’s episode was originally released on May 27 2022.
In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “I am often laughing with my husband about our own idiosyncrasies.
The part of us that only we know, the things that could never be said to anyone else but each other.
I love that private language.
That lexicon.
My private moments, his private moments.
I have it with good friends too, the things that don’t require explanation.
That’s the real history of us.”
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