Send us a text 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, is by Edward Thomas and is in the public domain....
Mar 11, 2025•7 min
Send us a text 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 Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Refusal to Mourn, is by Andrea Cohen and is featured here with...
Feb 25, 2025•10 min
Send us a text 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 public domain....
Feb 11, 2025•7 min
Send us a text 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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Jesus at the Gay Bar , is by Jay Hulme and is ...
Jan 28, 2025•10 min
Send us a text 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 Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Injustice , is by Piyassili of Assyria, 1218 BC, and is featured ...
Jan 14, 2025•8 min
Send us a text 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, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other ...
Dec 30, 2024•14 min
Send us a text 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's poem, Inscrutable , by poet, editor, and Algonquin Round Table founder Dorothy Parker, is in the publi...
Nov 22, 2024•10 min
Send us a text 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 by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Naive , is by Tim Seibles and is featured here with...
Nov 04, 2024•11 min
Send us a text 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 composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, The Garden by Moonlight , by poet an...
Oct 21, 2024•6 min
Send us a text 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’s poem, Dressing My Father-in-Law for Burial , is by Benjamin Cutler and is included in his new collect...
Jul 02, 2024•10 min
Send us a text 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Return , by writer, poet and teacher Sterling A. Brown, is in the publ...
Jun 18, 2024•6 min
Send us a text 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, and we have to help each other through. Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music by Kelly...
May 21, 2024•15 min
Send us a text 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 by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, So We'll Go NoMore A-Roving , by Louis Untermeyer...
May 09, 2024•7 min
Send us a text 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 music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem,...
Mar 26, 2024•8 min
Send us a text 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 Mark Garry. Today's poem, Faith , by Louis Untermeyer, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at...
Mar 12, 2024•6 min
Send us a text 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 Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Ode to a Couch , by Chris Abbate, is featured here with k...
Feb 27, 2024•10 min
Send us a text "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 Mark Garry. Today's poem, Gone With the Swallows , is by Arab-American writer and poet Ameen Rihani and is in the public doma...
Feb 13, 2024•6 min
Send us a text 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 Whispered to a Child Under Siege , by Joseph Fasano, is featured here with kind permission of the poe...
Jan 30, 2024•10 min
Send us a text 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 performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Challenge , by writer, poet and teacher Sterli...
Jan 16, 2024•6 min
Send us a text 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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 , by Jessica Tanck, is ...
Jan 02, 2024•11 min
Send us a text 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 Mark Garry. Today's poem, eWhere Go the Boats , is by British writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson and is i...
Dec 19, 2023•6 min
Send us a text 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 Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Keel , by Keith Leonard, is featured here with kind permi...
Dec 07, 2023•11 min
Send us a text 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 Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Sea Fever , by British poet John Masefield, is in the pu...
Oct 17, 2023•6 min
Send us a text 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper , by Joseph Fasano, is featured ...
Oct 03, 2023•9 min
Send us a text 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. Today's poem, Trees at Night , by Helene Johnson, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wor...
Sep 19, 2023•6 min
Send us a text 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Directions to Your College Dorm , by Faith Shearin, is featured her...
Sep 05, 2023•10 min
Send us a text 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 recent collection We Borrowed Gentleness , and is featured here with kind permission of the poet....
Aug 31, 2023•10 min
Send us a text 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. Today's poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay are in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at words...
Aug 22, 2023•8 min
Send us a text 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 Garry. Today’s poem, Baby Monitor , by George Kalogeris, is featured here with kind permission of the poet....
Aug 08, 2023•10 min
Send us a text 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 Garry. Today's poem, Recipe for a Salad , by Sydney Smith, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be re...
Jul 25, 2023•7 min
