Words by Winter

Send us Fan Mail I tend to shy away from rhyme, thinking it'll be all jingly, but guess what? I'm so often wrong. 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 M...

Send us Fan Mail To be loved by someone the way our couches love us? That's a beautiful thing, at least to someone like me, who personifies the furniture in her home. 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...

Send us Fan Mail "Must I alone, my once, my own?" laments the poet. We've all been there, haven't we? 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 Mar...

Send us Fan Mail What if we cared for everyone in pain, everyone suffering, the way we would care for our own child? 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, Words...

Send us Fan Mail This poem, Challenge , by Sterling A. Brown, has haunted me --not in a bad way, in a wondering sort of way--since I first came across it. 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 perform...

Send us Fan Mail Our physical bodies hold clues to what we're most drawn to do in life, or what we spend so much of our time doing, or where and how and with whom we've lived.  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 There's something magical about this little poem, its lilt and wonder, its questions and imaginings. 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 Ma...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you look at something you've seen a thousand times and suddenly you know something about it, or about yourself, that you never knew before. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you just want a poem that swings and sways and washes in and out and carries you along with it, the way the sea does. 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 Kell...

Send us Fan Mail It's an odd experience, giving a chatbot an assignment to write about one of your own novels, and then see what it comes back with. 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. Artwo...

Send us Fan Mail I'm looking right now at the tall pine in my front yard. I wish you could see it too. 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.  Toda...

Send us Fan Mail You know those moments, or experiences, or places, or people in life that, when you encounter them, give your life a whole new perspective? 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. Ar...

Send us Fan Mail If you had it to do over again, would 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. Today’s poem, Living in the Moment , by J. Estanislao Lopez, is from his rec...

Send us Fan Mail All my life I've loved this poet, and now that I know more about her life, I love her more. 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....

Send us Fan Mail Where do we go when Alzheimer's takes us down its curving roads? Do the rituals we loved all our lives stay with us? 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 Garr...

Send us Fan Mail I've never written a poem recipe before, but after reading this one, I intend to give it a try! 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 Ga...

Send us Fan Mail When your mother asks you for a happy poem, you write one for her. 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 Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Lola Ridge, born in Dublin, raised in Australia and New Zealand, who lived and wrote and worked her activist magic on the Lower East Side of New York City. 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...

Send us Fan Mail So much of what we love about the things in our lives isn't the thing-ness of them. It's the people, and places, and moments that they evoke. 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 Kel...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Angelina Weld Grimke, daughter of a white Boston aristocrat and her born-enslaved husband. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Once you see through the swinging door into other worlds that exist alongside this one, you see those doors everywhere. 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....

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born poet to publish poetry in English. 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...

Send us Fan Mail How do you honor the ones who came before you? In thought and word and deeds?  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, Because , by Tim Nolan, is...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Elinor Wylie, who lived rebelliously in a time when it was (even harder) for women to live rebelliously. 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 perf...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever find yourself transported back in time, your body acting on autopilot, as if you're living all the ages you ever were? 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. Artwor...