Words by Winter

Send us Fan Mail It'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...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes, 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 p...

Send us Fan Mail My 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 Pe...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wanted to be someone else? Some thing 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.  Toda...

Send us Fan Mail It'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 Sar...

Send us Fan Mail Did 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...

Send us Fan Mail What 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 Robe...

Send us Fan Mail A 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 pe...

Send us Fan Mail It'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 Fento...

Send us Fan Mail Hope 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 mus...

Send us Fan Mail Did 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail Answers to the question "Tell me about an object in your home that you love, will you? One that has special meaning, maybe only to 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 by Kelly Kr...

Send us Fan Mail It's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Elizabeth Coatsworth. 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, Swift Thing...

Send us Fan Mail How do we learn to cope with "the big feelings" and understand that we are more than them? More  than our times of depression, more than our thoughts of suicide. We are also our times of lightness and laughter, love and redemption.  Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each o...

Send us Fan Mail How do we call ourselves back to the world, call others back to the world? A listener named Olivier, his voice filled with bewildered, anguished love, called in about his two children, who on two successive days last year attempted suicide.  Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each ot...

Send us Fan Mail In the depths of depression, how easy it is to forget all the ways that this life is still calling out to us. Join us for a conversation with Rocky Callen, author of the lovely novel A Breath Too Late . 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. If you or someone you love...

Send us Fan Mail Of the thousands of books on the shelves throughout my house, a solid half are unread. How many will I ever get through? Why is it so, so hard to let them go? 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, with additional...

Send us Fan Mail A listener in Germany writes in wondering if there's a poem for those of us who aren't fearless. 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork...

Send us Fan Mail It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Day, almost two weeks from the day that insurrectionists stormed the Capitol and partially destroyed it as they hunted down their fellow human beings. An event which makes me think of a lie I once told, many years ago.  Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help e...

Send us Fan Mail In a letter that might feel familiar to many, a listener named Jeanne from upstate New York writes in wondering how to find her own words, and how to put them forth into 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 Pe...

Send us Fan Mail Thinking today about code words, words between people who are close to each other, words passed down over years or a lifetime that have meaning only to the people who share them. 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 Pere...

Send us Fan Mail When all is said and done, what do you hope others remember you for? 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem fra...

Send us Fan Mail Words by Winter celebrates its first half year of life! Thanks to all the listeners and helpers.  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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark...

Send us Fan Mail Are we really each other’s enemies? Is hatred and scorn our common enemy? Is there a way to come together? What is the answer here? What even are the questions? 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, with additiona...

Send us Fan Mail A listener from England named Hugh writes in about the poems he found in a notebook after his father's death, poems he never knew his father had written. 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, with additional...