Words by Winter

Send us a textOur physical bodies hold clues to what we're most drawn to do in life, or what we spend so much of our time doing, or where and how and with whom we've lived. 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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, by Jessica Tanck, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out her forthcoming collection, Winter Here , due out early in 2024 from the University of Georgia Press. 

Send us a textThere's something magical about this little poem, its lilt and wonder, its questions and imaginings.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. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem, eWhere Go the Boats, is by British writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textSometimes you look at something you've seen a thousand times and suddenly you know something about it, or about yourself, that you never knew before.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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Keel, by Keith Leonard, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to look up his collection, Ramshackle Ode, published by Ecco Press.

Send us a textSometimes you just want a poem that swings and sways and washes in and out and carries you along with it, the way the sea does. 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. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem, Sea Fever, by British poet John Masefield, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIt's an odd experience, giving a chatbot an assignment to write about one of your own novels, and then see what it comes back 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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. 

Send us a textI'm looking right now at the tall pine in my front yard. I wish you could see it too.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. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem, Trees at Night, by Helene Johnson, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textYou know those moments, or experiences, or places, or people in life that, when you encounter them, give your life a whole new perspective?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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Directions to Your College Dorm, by Faith Shearin, is featured here with kind permission of the poet and Orpheus, Turning and Broadkill River Press.

Send us a textIf you had it to do over again, would you?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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Living in the Moment, by J. Estanislao Lopez, is from his recent collection We Borrowed Gentleness, and is featured here with kind permission of the poet. 

Send us a textAll my life I've loved this poet, and now that I know more about her life, I love her more.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. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay are in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textWhere do we go when Alzheimer's takes us down its curving roads? Do the rituals we loved all our lives stay with us?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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Baby Monitor, by George Kalogeris, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.