107 episodes
Words by Winter Alison McGhee
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5.0 • 29 Ratings
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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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Because, with Tim Nolan
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 from his recent collection Lines and is featured here with kind permission of the poet. -
Poetry Snack, with Elinor Wylie
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 performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Velvet Shoes, is by Elinor Wylie and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. -
Driving Without Radio, with Robert Okaji
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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Driving Without Radio, by Robert Okaji, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about Robert Okaji, along with more of his beautiful poems, at https://robertokaji.com/about/. -
Poetry Snack, with Esther Popel Shaw
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 theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Theft,, is by Esther Popel Shaw and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. -
May 5, 2020, with John Okrent
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. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, May 5, 2020, by physician and poet John Okrent, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about John Okrent, along with more of his beautiful poems, at https://johnokrent.com/. -
Poetry Snack, with Jonathan Swift
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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, This Day,, is by Jonathan Swift and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
Customer Reviews
Gift
How happy I am when I find a recent episode of Words by Winter pop up in my podcast library. It’s a lovely unbirthday gift.
Whiskers found
I think of these episodes like finding whiskers from a beloved cat who died, in a rug tucked away. A memento of what was said, what was soft, in this lonely strange anxious time.
Food for the soul
Invokes a deep sense of soothing (even her voice) and of conscious connection beyond us. Yet, her topics ground us as sentient beings connected to one another.