Words by Winter

Send us a textOh, the people and places and animals and things woven so deeply into the existence of our lives...the warp and weft that give depth and nuance and richness to our lives,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, May 5, 2020, by physician and poet John Okrent, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about John Okrent, along with more of his beautiful poems, at https://johnokrent.com/.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Jonathan Swift, who lived and wrote his many works in the early 1700's.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, This Day,, is by Jonathan Swift and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textDid someone once say something to you, as a child, that has sustained you throughout your entire life since?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, A Young Man, a Stranger, Smiled at Me, by Jim Moore, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about Jim Moore at https://jimmoorepoet.com/. 

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Robert Frost.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 Aim Was Song, is by Robert Frost and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textAnyone keep their old address books? If so, are you like me, unable ever to cross out a name?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, Lake of the Isles, by Anni Liu, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about her at https://anniliuwrites.wordpress.com/. 

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Elsa Gidlow.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, Of a Certain Friendship, by Elsa Gidlow, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textA listener in Florida writes in about monkeypox, and how it reminds him of "the first plague" he, unlike many of his friends, survived.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, 72 Corona Transmutations (excerpt), by CAConrad, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. Look up CAConrad on Youtube and elsewhere; they are incredible.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Evelyn Scott.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, From Brooklyn, by Evelyn Scott, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textAre we all the people we ever were, at all times, everywhere? Are we all the people we never were, somehow, all the people we dreamed we might be? 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 Evening Star, by George Kalogeris, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. It was originally printed in the Harvard Review. Kalogeris's latest collection, published last year, is the gorgeous Winthropos, 

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Yvor Winters.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 Moonlight, by Yvor Winters, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.