Words by Winter

Send us Fan Mail Remember a ritual you did, daily even, in the wake of a loss? A ritual you might not have realized was a way to get you through to the other side?  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 K...

Send us Fan Mail I've loved ee cummings my entire life, and never once saw his formal name-Edward Estlin Cummings--spelled out in his byline.  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...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever picture the faces of the people you most love, and feel a kind of ease and comfort wash through 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 Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Toda...

Send us Fan Mail What would you most like to be known for? If a single word could be engraved on your headstone that would describe you, what would that word be? 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 Kreb...

Send us Fan Mail In which I contemplate, with H.D.'s help, how the incredibly long-lasting vase of flowerish plants on my table makes me think of hands, reaching up out of the sea.  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. Addit...

Send us Fan Mail Have any of you ever done something or said something that just...flew out of your mouth, or out of your hand, and changed your or someone else's life forever? I've been haunted by this poem for many years now.  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 The Twin Cities are currently under assault by our federal government. The strength and resolve and steadfast by Twin Citians is an astonishing thing to witness.  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 m...

Send us Fan Mail Have any of you ever been pulled back from the brink by a person or animal who loved you? I have.  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, Claim,...

Send us Fan Mail Anyone else find themselves, despite all the goodness and wonder in their life, wanting more? This is when I have to stop, and return to the breath of gratitude.  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 m...

Send us Fan Mail We're back after an unexpected hiatus to take care of a beloved family member.  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, Cold Solace , is by...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a long time, friends. Six months, to be precise. But we're back and we intend to keep coming back. Take heart. We're all in this together.  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...

Send us Fan Mail Anyone else out there haunted by the calls of owls, coyotes, wolves, in the middle of the night?  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, The Owl...

Send us Fan Mail My dog hides nothing: his love, his pain, his hunger, his tiredness. As a result, he tends to get what he wants and needs. I am not like my dog.  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 Kre...

Send us Fan Mail Little things. Tiny things. Things to hold gently. 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, Little Things , is by Marion Strobel and is in the pub...

Send us Fan Mail So much pain in life, the kind of pain inflicted by humans upon each other because of differing theologies, feels unnecessary to me. Can't we all be who we are? 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. Additiona...

Send us Fan Mail It's a beautiful thing, how a poem written more than three thousand years ago can come shimmering up through the ages, an arrow to the 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 K...

Send us Fan Mail Years go by and you live through so many things that don’t turn out as you hope, and you know this will keep on happening. The flip side of this is a kind of gratitude I could not have felt when I was younger, a combination of telescope and microscope: all the awfulness will always be there, and so will a thousand tiny beautiful moments. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflection...

Send us Fan Mail Oh, Ms. Parker. Ms. Parker! How do you do what you do? I read your poems over and over.  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&...

Send us Fan Mail Oh, childhood and the friends we made then. The friends I had when I was a child will be with me forever, even if only in memory, in a kind of longing way.  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 b...

Send us Fan Mail I'm preparing my garden for winter as this episode airs, and feeling nostalgic for its summer glory, something that the poet seems to feel as well.  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 comp...

Send us Fan Mail Oh, the fathers. The fathers and those who stand in for fathers. My own father is gone now, and how I miss him.  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 Sterling A. Brown's work stays with me, making me think about childhood, and the things we leave behind, but why?  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....

Send us Fan Mail All summer, he's hidden his voice, no matter how I begged for just one song. Three lines from "Music Box" which, to me, encapsulate the love and anger and longing that siblings can feel for each other, all in the same moment. Families are complicated.  Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, a...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes a simple poem, filled with a kind of resigned longing, belies the long meanderings of an extraordinary and complicated life.  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 What are some of the most important things you've left off your resume, the kind of things that in your heart of heart are most important to you? Poet Joyce Sutphen lists some of hers, in this gorgeous poem. 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 m...