Words by Winter

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Angelina Weld Grimke, daughter of a white Boston aristocrat and her born-enslaved husband.

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, A Winter Twilight, is by Angelina Weld Grimke and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Once you see through the swinging door into other worlds that exist alongside this one, you see those doors everywhere.

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, Picking Blueberries, by Rosanna Young Oh, is from her recent collection The Corrected Version, winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest, and is featured here with kind permission of the poet and publisher.

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born poet to publish poetry in English.

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 faint shadow of the morning moon, is by Yone Noguchi and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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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. 

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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 [email protected]. 

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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/.

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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 [email protected]. 

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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/.

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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 [email protected]. 

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Did someone once say something to you, as a child, that has sustained you throughout your entire life since?

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, A Young Man, a Stranger, Smiled at Me, by Jim Moore, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about Jim Moore at https://jimmoorepoet.com/.