Words by Winter

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes a poem takes your breath away with the gorgeous sweep of its memory, and by its refusal to look away.  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’...

Send us Fan Mail It's another poetry snack with Robert Frost, a New Englander whose poems often center on that solitary, sensory landscape. 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 Mar...

Send us Fan Mail A listener named Esty writes in about a tough work situation. Work, even work we love, takes up so much of our energy and time, and when things go south, it's painful. I went in search of a poem to help Esty through. 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. Origina...

Send us Fan Mail Today's poetry snack is adapted from a poem by Carl Sandburg. 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.  The original version of today's poem (below) i...

Send us Fan Mail Today's featured poem, Wondrous , encompasses so much about life as a child and life as a grownup. That long tunnel of years between childhood and the point at which you look back on it and think Now I know why my mother was crying, because you yourself now cry at the same thing. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s...

Send us Fan Mail It's a poetry snack, with Robert Frost, a New Englander whose poems often center on that solitary, sensory landscape. 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 Gar...

Send us Fan Mail Who were your childhood friends? Do you remember them? Much happens in childhood, much good, much bad, much of it experienced with the friends we had back then. Sometimes my childhood friends and I look back through the lens of time and talk about long-gone days.  Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and...

Send us Fan Mail It's a post-Halloween poetry snack, with Edgar Allan Poe. 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, "Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Po...

Send us Fan Mail It's a poetry snack, with Edward Estlin Cummings, who went by his initials, always lowercased, ee. 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 p...

Send us Fan Mail What exactly is competition? What does it mean to be a team player? How do you know if you're competitive, and can you be competitive with yourself? 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 K...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring poet Amy Lowell. 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 Letter , is by Amy Lowell...

Send us Fan Mail A listener in Georgia named Perron writes in about her relationship with her daughter. It's a complicated relationship, like so many between parents and children, full of fear and love and a specific heartache both contemporary in form and ancient in experience. Perron asked for a poem, and we turned to Ellen Bass. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about...

Send us Fan Mail It's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg. 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, River Roads , is b...

Send us Fan Mail Are there people in the world you owe? People you think about, and wish you'd thanked, or more than thanked, at the time, but out of shock, or because you weren’t thinking straight,  didn’t?  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 sho...

Send us Fan Mail It's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with 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, Acquainted wi...

Send us Fan Mail Where  and when in the wide world do you feel most alive? Most at one with your physical body, full of its beautiful power? 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 Ga...

Send us Fan Mail It'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...

Send us Fan Mail It'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. Ar...

Send us Fan Mail When 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....

Send us Fan Mail It'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...

Send us Fan Mail Listeners 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 p...

Send us Fan Mail It'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...

Send us Fan Mail My 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 Mar...

Send us Fan Mail It'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...

Send us Fan Mail A 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.  Toda...