Words by Winter

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Esther Popel Shaw, who was part of the Harlem Renaissance and who self-published her first book of poetry, Thoughtless Thinks  from a Thinkless Thaughter , when she was in high school. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Oh, the people and places and animals and things woven so deeply into the existence of our lives...the warp and weft that give depth and nuance and richness to our lives, 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. Addi...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Jonathan Swift, who lived and wrote his many works in the early 1700's. 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. Artwor...

Send us Fan Mail Did someone once say something to you, as a child, that has sustained you throughout your entire life since? 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 po...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring 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, The Aim Was Song , is by R...

Send us Fan Mail Anyone keep their old address books? If so, are you like me, unable ever to cross out a name? 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, Lake of the...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Elsa Gidlow. 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, Of a Certain Friendship , b...

Send us Fan Mail A listener in Florida writes in about monkeypox, and how it reminds him of "the first plague" he, unlike many of his friends, survived. 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 It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Evelyn Scott. 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, From Brooklyn , by Evelyn...

Send us Fan Mail Are we all the people we ever were, at all times, everywhere? Are we all the people we never were, somehow, all the people we dreamed we might 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 Kr...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Yvor Winters. 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 Moonlight , by Yvor Wi...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever conjure up the voices of those you love and loved? Do you wonder where they are, now that they are no longer here on earth? Does their laughter echo in your 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....

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Charles Reznikoff. 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 city breaks in h...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever tried, with all your might, to the point of exhaustion, to make someone else happy? 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, Currenc...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Robert Frost, an American poet known for his poems set in the New England countryside, often focused on an aspect of the natural world, especially winter, that opens a window into the human soul. 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 throug...

Send us Fan Mail If we could come back to life somehow, in some form, how might we appear to the ones we love? 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.  T...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Laura Riding Jackson. 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 Spring Has Many Sil...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889.  McKay wrote both poetry and prose, and he was another key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the prominent literary movement of the 1920s and 30s that I often mention here on the podcast. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. B...

Send us Fan Mail Ever look around you, questioning so many decisions you made or didn't make along the way, and  feel as if everyone else has it somehow figured out better than 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. Addit...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Clarissa Scott Delaney. 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, Joy , is in the...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever imagine people long gone from your life, how they might look now, if they would remember you, sense you somehow even if you're not there? 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 com...

Send us Fan Mail Anyone who thinks it's an insult to describe someone as a "former comedian" has clearly never stood alone in front of a crowd of people with the intention of making them laugh.   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 i...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Arna Bontemps. 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, Length of Moon , is in th...

Send us Fan Mail When you think of those you most love, how do they come to you? In voice or looks or scent? In touch? 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 G...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Poetry Snack, featuring 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, February Twilight,  is by Sara...