Words by Winter

Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Christina Rossetti.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, Who Has Seen the Wind?  is by Christina Rossetti and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, with Emily Dickinson, whom your recalcitrant host is learning to appreciate.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 is by Emily Dickinson and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textWhen a small decision --to raise your hand, to walk through an unfamiliar door--reverberates throughout your life, changes the way you live, and think, and look at the world.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 poetic essay, Thirty-Five Years Ago, I Raise My Hand, is by poet Robert Okaji and is read by the poet himself.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with A.E. Housman.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, To an Athlete Dying Young, by Alfred Edward Housman, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textListeners write in with stories of unexpected twists and turns and how their lives changed as a result.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, Lucky, by Kirsten Dierking, is used with the poet's kind permission.. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with  Amy Lowell, who loved and wrote Imagist poetry, full of precise visual imagery. 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 London Thoroughfare, 2 a.m,, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textMy friend and I held hands in his living room and talked and laughed and cried. We both knew it would be our last conversation.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 All the People I Have Been, by John Zdrazil, is used without his permission, because he's not here to grant it (this would have made him laugh). Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with  Angelina Weld Grimke, whose poems, written a century ago, feel fresh and alive,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 is by Angelina Weld Grimke and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textA listener named Julie writes in, wondering how she can keep her mother in her life and also keep her own sanity.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 Mother Is a Peaceful Ghost, by Lisa Dordal, is used with kind permission of the poet, who can be found at lisadordal.com. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg. Note that we will be off the month of June - please check out the archives for episodes you may have missed or want to hear again.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 Fog, is by Carl Sandburg and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.