The Poetry Foundation
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Sep 16, 2026
Maggie SmithHOST
Someone is making their way through the bar, coat tucked under an arm, a drink in each hand.
Maggie SmithHOST
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Maggie SmithHOST
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Let us hold on even as the wind rises.
Maggie SmithHOST
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Zachary SwezyGUEST
I did study poetry as well.
Zachary SwezyGUEST
Um, and then, yeah, while I was in my MFA program, my poetry teacher invited me to speak with her at the Poetry Foundation, and that was really affirming for me, and I've kind of considered myself a poet ever since.
Zachary SwezyGUEST
Um, what else? Oh, Poem Pilled is a reading series.
Zachary SwezyGUEST
It's-- We're in our fourth year.
Maggie SmithHOST
I tell time by counting teeth marks around the crooked nipple.
Maggie SmithHOST
[gentle music] The Slowdown is a production of American Public Media in partnership with The Poetry Foundation.
Maggie SmithHOST
To get a poem delivered to you daily, go to slowdownshow.org and sign up for our newsletter.
Maggie SmithHOST
Find us on Instagram at slowdownshow and Blue Sky at slowdownshow.org. Hi, it's Maggie.
Katie CobbHOST
I don't know, a year, six months, however long it's been.
Katie CobbHOST
You sign up for those for free at poetryfoundation.org, and because it's free and it shows up without me having to do anything, it is such an easy way for me to read the first line and decide if I'm gonna continue or not.
Katie CobbHOST
And sometimes I take a screenshot and I post it on Instagram.
Katie CobbHOST
Weird.
Maggie SmithHOST
The plum you are going to eat next summer is growing just for you.
Maggie SmithHOST
[slow music] The Slowdown is a production of American Public Media in partnership with The Poetry Foundation.
Maggie SmithHOST
To get a poem delivered to you daily, go to slowdownshow.org and sign up for our newsletter.
Maggie SmithHOST
Find us on Instagram at slowdownshow and Bluesky at slowdownshow.org.
Janaki MehtaCORRESPONDENT
Janaki Mehta, NPR News.
Korva ColemanHOST
The Poetry Foundation has awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award to former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
Korva ColemanHOST
The prize is worth one hundred thousand dollars.
Korva ColemanHOST
The Poetry Foundation has also named poet and children's author Nikki Grimes as its next Young People's Poet Laureate.
Korva ColemanHOST
Grimes will also receive a fifty-thousand-dollar prize.
Korva ColemanHOST
I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.
Maria GodoyCORRESPONDENT
Maria Godoy, NPR News.
Korva ColemanHOST
The Poetry Foundation has awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award to former U.S.
Korva ColemanHOST
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
Korva ColemanHOST
It's worth one hundred thousand dollars.
Dave PackerHOST
That's nearly double the value of all deals cleared in the first year of the commission's existence.
Dave PackerHOST
Robert Pinsky, who served as US Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000, has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement award from the Poetry Foundation.
Dave PackerHOST
Dave Packer, ABC News.
Mike ToboskiCORRESPONDENT
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Literary Awards The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation announced multiple new awards yesterday, including bestowing a Lifetime Achievement Award on former U.S.
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Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, naming poet and children's author Nikki Grimes the next Young People's Poet Laureate, and giving poet-journalist-activist Luis Javier Rodriguez the organization's Pegasus Award for service in poetry.
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