Words by Winter

Send us a textDo you ever conjure up the voices of those you love and loved? Do you wonder where they are, now that they are no longer here on earth? Does their laughter echo in your heart?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, How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, by Lauren K. Alleyne, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about her, including more of her gorgeous poems, on her website: https://laurenkalleyne.com/Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Charles Reznikoff.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 city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves,], by Charles Reznikoff, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textHave you ever tried, with all your might, to the point of exhaustion, to make someone else happy?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, Currency: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben, by Lee Ann Roripaugh, is featured here with kind permission of the poet and was originally published in Boulevard. It was later reprinted in Verse Daily. In addition to being a poet and the former South Dakota Poet Laureate, Lee Ann Roripaugh is a professor of English at the University of South Dakota and the Editor-in-Chief of the South Dakota Review.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Robert Frost, an American poet known for his poems set in the New England countryside, often focused on an aspect of the natural world, especially winter, that opens a window into the human soul.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, Riders, by Robert Frost, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIf we could come back to life somehow, in some form, how might we appear to the ones we love?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 Fancies, by Mrs. Minot Carter, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Laura Riding Jackson.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 Spring Has Many Silences by Laura Riding Jackson, is in the public domain.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889.  McKay wrote both poetry and prose, and he was another key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the prominent literary movement of the 1920s and 30s that I often mention here on the podcast. 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, After the Winter, is in the public domain.Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textEver look around you, questioning so many decisions you made or didn't make along the way, and  feel as if everyone else has it somehow figured out better than 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 composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today’s poem, Allegiance, by Hannah Marshall, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. Check out more of her gorgeous work here: https://hannahmarshallpoet.com/.Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Clarissa Scott Delaney.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, Joy, is in the public domain and was written by Clarissa Scott Delany, born Clarissa Mae Scott, who was an African American author of essays and poems, teacher, and social worker active during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, a hugely influential outpouring of art of all kinds from Black artists in Harlem nearly a century ago. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textDo you ever imagine people long gone from your life, how they might look now, if they would remember you, sense you somehow even if you're not there?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, Forsythias, by C.L. O’Dell, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.Check out more of his beautiful poems here: https://www.clodellpoet.com/poems.html.Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.