Episodes

  • The Garden by Moonlight, with Amy Lowell
    Oct 21 2024

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    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 and translator Amy Lowell, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

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    6 mins
  • Dressing My Father-in-Law for Burial, by Benjamin Cutler
    Jul 2 2024

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    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 collection Wild Silence, forthcoming in October 2024. It's featured here with kind permission of the poet. I encourage you to check out more of his beautiful work.

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    10 mins
  • Poetry Snack, "Return," with Sterling A. Brown
    Jun 18 2024

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    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 public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

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    6 mins
  • Music Box, with Rhett Iseman Trull
    May 21 2024

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    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 Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Music Box, by Rhett Iseman Trull, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. I encourage you to check out more of her beautiful work.

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    15 mins
  • Poetry Snack, with George Gordon, Lord Byron
    May 9 2024

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    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, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

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    7 mins
  • Things You Didn't Put on Your Resumé, by Joyce Sutphen
    Mar 26 2024

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    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, Things You Didn't Put on Your Resumé, by Joyce Sutphen, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. I encourage you to check out more of her beautiful work.

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    8 mins
  • Poetry Snack, with Louis Untermeyer
    Mar 12 2024

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    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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

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    6 mins
  • Ode to a Couch, with Chris Abbate
    Feb 27 2024

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    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 kind permission of the poet. I encourage you to check out more of his work at http://www.chrisabbate.com/about-me.html.

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    10 mins