Words by Winter

Send us a textSometimes, in an awful time, cruelty can feel more common than kindness. How do you shore yourself up? 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, What to Do, by Joyce Sutphen, was read by Mark Garry and used with kind permission of the poet. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Send us a textMy young trans friend sent me a photo the other day in which he wore a necklace and a lacy flowered shirt and a big happy grin. This is my favorite photo of you ever! I wrote back.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, Summer, by Chen Chen, was read with the poet’s kind permission.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEver wanted to be someone else? Something else? Escape something that you can't --not yet, anyway-- escape? 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, Mouse, by Karen Bjork Kubin, was read by the poet herself, and is used with her kind permission. 

Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Sara Teasdale.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, Barter,  is by Sara Teasdale and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textDid you know that until maybe 200 or 250 years ago, the word “they” was perfectly acceptable as a singular pronoun? Times change, language is malleable, and poems reflect both these truths. 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. Today’s poems, Syntax and its next generation version, immigrant can’t write poetry, are by Wang Ping and are used with her kind permission. 

Send us a textWhat are the little phrases and lines and words that keep you going?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, Owls, by Robert Hedin, is used with his kind permission and was read by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textA listener writes in about a dream she keeps having. She's in a house she doesn't recognize, looking for a door she can't find.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 Accordion” by Connie Wanek, is read with kind permission of the poet and is from her book On Speaking Terms, published by Copper Canyon Press.

Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Fenton Johnson.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, Revery, by Fenton Johnson, is in the public domain and was read by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Send us a textHope for the future feels familiar, but what about hope for the past as well? A listener in Texas wrote in hoping for a poem that might bring him some comfort.  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, Thanks, Robert Frost, written and copyrighted by David Ray, was read by Mark Garry with kind permission of the poet. You can find more of David Ray’s work on his website, davidraypoet.com. 

Send us a textDid you used to sing a lot when you were a kid? Does music from your past bring you straight to a specific place, a specific time, specific people? 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 beautiful poem, A Lao Jia Song Is a Song of Home, by Stephanie Niu, was first published in the Southeast Review, and was read by the poet herself. The link to the youtube video with the ballerina can be found here.