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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.

Words by Winter Alison McGhee

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 30 Ratings

Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it's rough out there, and we have to help each other through.

    Poetry Snack, with Louis Untermeyer

    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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

    • 5 min
    Ode to a Couch, with Chris Abbate

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

    • 10 min
    Poetry Snack, with Ameen Rihani

    Poetry Snack, with Ameen Rihani

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

    • 5 min
    Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege, by Joseph Fasano

    Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege, by Joseph Fasano

    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 poet.  I encourage you to check out more of his work at josephfasano.net or on Instagram.

    • 10 min
    Poetry Snack, with Sterling A. Brown

    Poetry Snack, with Sterling A. Brown

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

    • 5 min
    Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, with Jessica Tanck

    Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, with Jessica Tanck

    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 featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out her forthcoming collection, Winter Here , due out early in 2024 from the University of Georgia Press. 

    • 11 min

Customer Reviews

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30 Ratings

30 Ratings

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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.

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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.

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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.

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