Words by Winter

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It's an odd experience, giving a chatbot an assignment to write about one of your own novels, and then see what it comes back with.

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, For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. 

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I'm looking right now at the tall pine in my front yard. I wish you could see it too.

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, Trees at Night, by Helene Johnson, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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You know those moments, or experiences, or places, or people in life that, when you encounter them, give your life a whole new perspective?

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, Directions to Your College Dorm, by Faith Shearin, is featured here with kind permission of the poet and Orpheus, Turning and Broadkill River Press.

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If you had it to do over again, would you?

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, Living in the Moment, by J. Estanislao Lopez, is from his recent collection We Borrowed Gentleness, and is featured here with kind permission of the poet. 

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All my life I've loved this poet, and now that I know more about her life, I love her more.

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 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay are in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Where do we go when Alzheimer's takes us down its curving roads? Do the rituals we loved all our lives stay with us?

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, Baby Monitor, by George Kalogeris, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. 

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I've never written a poem recipe before, but after reading this one, I intend to give it a try!

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, Recipe for a Salad, by Sydney Smith, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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When your mother asks you for a happy poem, you write one for her.

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, My Mom’s Been Asking for a Happy Poem All My Life, by Jennifer Givhan, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.

Click here for more information about the wondrous poet and novelist Jennifer Givhan.

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Lola Ridge, born in Dublin, raised in Australia and New Zealand, who lived and wrote and worked her activist magic on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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, Thaw, by Lola Ridge, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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So much of what we love about the things in our lives isn't the thing-ness of them. It's the people, and places, and moments that they evoke.

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, The Sound of Music, by Kathryn Nuernberger, is featured here with kind permission of the poet and publisher.

Click here for more information about poet and nonfiction writer Kathryn Nuernberger. You'll be glad you did.