Words by Winter

Send us a textWhen all is said and done, what do you hope others remember you for?Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem fragment is by the late, great Raymond Carver. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textWords by Winter celebrates its first half year of life! Thanks to all the listeners and helpers. Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

W.H. Auden, English-American poet and writer, explores the impact of hateful rhetoric, the importance of empathy, and the concept of enemies. They emphasize the significance of love, interconnectedness, and not giving up on others in building a more inclusive world.

Send us a textA listener from England named Hugh writes in about the poems he found in a notebook after his father's death, poems he never knew his father had written.Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, The Wild Swans at Coole, is by William Butler Yeats and is in the public domain. It was read by Luke O'Brien.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textA listener from Arizona named Russ writes in about his fear that in the unending awfulness of 2020 he's turning toward animals as a defense against humans. That he's always been a "defender of humans" and doesn't want to turn into one of those people who only loves dogs. Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, is by William Butler Yeats and is in the public domain. It was read by Luke O'Brien.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textTechnology and its gadgets bring the seen and unseen worlds closer, begin to dissolve the boundaries we live by, have believed in. But is it possible that the boundaries were never there to begin with? Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Young Relics , is by poet Emma Hine and read with her kind permission. Please check out her website: emmahine.com. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIn the beginning of the pandemic, we did an episode about a listener from the Czech Republic, who had gone two months without touch. . . and now here we are, eight months in.Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Two Countries, is by the wondrous Naomi Shihab Nye and read with her permission. Naomi Shihab Nye's work can be found everywhere --she is one of our most beloved poets--and I encourage you, for your own sake, to seek it out. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textWhat's your definition of a "small luxury"? That morning cup of coffee? Chocolate? Time?  Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Leisure, is by William Henry Davies (I can find no copyright information for it). Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textHow does someone survive a childhood spent with a sociopathic parent? My friend Sarah, who was the inspiration behind the character of Sesame in my new novel, not only survived but emerged triumphant, and she agreed to be interviewed for the podcast. Featuring the beautiful poetry of Danusha Lameris.Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Bonfire Opera, by Danusha Lameris, is from her new book by the same name. It was read by Luke O’Brien with permission of the poet and the University of Pittsburgh Press. For more of Danusha Lameris’s gorgeous work, please check out her website, danushalameris.com. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textAll around my kayak and me and the birds and wildlife, Minneapolis was bubbling and churning with city life. But you wouldn’t know it from where I sat in my orange and yellow and red kayak, in the middle of the lake. Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, "Zazen on Ching Ting Mountain," is by Li Bai and was translated by Sam Hamill and found in his book Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese. It was read with permission of the poet and Tiger Bark Press. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.