Words by Winter

Send us a textWhen your mother asks you for a happy poem, you write one for her. 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, My Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life, by Jennifer Givhan, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.Click here for more information about the wondrous poet and novelist Jennifer Givhan.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Lola Ridge, born in Dublin, raised in Australia and New Zealand, who lived and wrote and worked her activist magic on the Lower East Side of New York City.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, Thaw, by Lola Ridge, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textSo much of what we love about the things in our lives isn't the thing-ness of them. It's the people, and places, and moments that they evoke.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, The Sound of Music, by Kathryn Nuernberger, is featured here with kind permission of the poet and publisher.Click here for more information about poet and nonfiction writer Kathryn Nuernberger. You'll be glad you did.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Angelina Weld Grimke, daughter of a white Boston aristocrat and her born-enslaved husband.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, A Winter Twilight, is by Angelina Weld Grimke and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textOnce you see through the swinging door into other worlds that exist alongside this one, you see those doors everywhere. 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, Picking Blueberries, by Rosanna Young Oh, is from her recent collection The Corrected Version, winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest, and is featured here with kind permission of the poet and publisher.Click here for more information about Rosanna Young Oh, and click here for more information about Diode Editions. 

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born poet to publish poetry in English.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, The faint shadow of the morning moon, is by Yone Noguchi and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textHow do you honor the ones who came before you? In thought and word and deeds? 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, Because, by Tim Nolan, is from his recent collection Lines and is featured here with kind permission of the poet. 

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Elinor Wylie, who lived rebelliously in a time when it was (even harder) for women to live rebelliously. 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, Velvet Shoes, is by Elinor Wylie and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textDo you ever find yourself transported back in time, your body acting on autopilot, as if you're living all the ages you ever were?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, Driving Without Radio, by Robert Okaji, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about Robert Okaji, along with more of his beautiful poems, at https://robertokaji.com/about/.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Esther Popel Shaw, who was part of the Harlem Renaissance and who self-published her first book of poetry, Thoughtless Thinks  from a Thinkless Thaughter, when she was in high school.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, Theft,, is by Esther Popel Shaw and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.