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What exactly is competition? What does it mean to be a team player? How do you know if you're competitive, and can you be competitive with yourself?

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, "Turning," is by Joe Mills. It comes from his book "This Miraculous Turning" (Press 53) and was read with the poet's kind permission.  Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring poet Amy Lowell.

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 Letter, is by Amy Lowell and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].

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A listener in Georgia named Perron writes in about her relationship with her daughter. It's a complicated relationship, like so many between parents and children, full of fear and love and a specific heartache both contemporary in form and ancient in experience. Perron asked for a poem, and we turned to Ellen Bass.

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, "After Our Daughter's Wedding," by Ellen Bass, is from her collection titled Mules of Love. It was published by BOA Editions in 2002  is read with the poet's kind permission.  Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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It's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg.

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, River Roads, is by Carl Sandburg and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].

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Are there people in the world you owe? People you think about, and wish you'd thanked, or more than thanked, at the time, but out of shock, or because you weren’t thinking straight,  didn’t? 

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, At a Waterfall, Reykjavik, by Eileen Myles, is read with the poet's kind permission.  Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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It's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with Robert Frost.

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, Acquainted with the Night, by Robert Frost, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].

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Where  and when in the wide world do you feel most alive? Most at one with your physical body, full of its beautiful power?

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, Bird, by the wondrous Danusha Lameris, is read with her kind permission.  Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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It's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Christina Rossetti.

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, Who Has Seen the Wind?  is by Christina Rossetti and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].

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It's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, with Emily Dickinson, whom your recalcitrant host is learning to appreciate.

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 is by Emily Dickinson and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].

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When a small decision --to raise your hand, to walk through an unfamiliar door--reverberates throughout your life, changes the way you live, and think, and look at the world.

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 poetic essay, Thirty-Five Years Ago, I Raise My Hand, is by poet Robert Okaji and is read by the poet himself.  Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].