Words by Winter Alison McGhee
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Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it's rough out there, and we have to help each other through.
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Poetry Snack, "Return," with Sterling A. Brown
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 d...
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Music Box, with Rhett Iseman Trull
All summer, he's hiddenhis voice, no matter how I begged forjust 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. Artw...
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Poetry Snack, with George Gordon, Lord Byron
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...
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Things You Didn't Put on Your Resumé, by Joyce Sutphen
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 Did...
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Poetry Snack, with Louis Untermeyer
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 word...
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Ode to a Couch, with Chris Abbate
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 ...