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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring 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, The Aim Was Song, is by Robert Frost and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Anyone keep their old address books? If so, are you like me, unable ever to cross out a name?

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, Lake of the Isles, by Anni Liu, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about her at https://anniliuwrites.wordpress.com/.

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Elsa Gidlow.

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, Of a Certain Friendship, by Elsa Gidlow, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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A listener in Florida writes in about monkeypox, and how it reminds him of "the first plague" he, unlike many of his friends, survived.

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, 72 Corona Transmutations (excerpt), by CAConrad, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. Look up CAConrad on Youtube and elsewhere; they are incredible.

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Evelyn Scott.

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, From Brooklyn, by Evelyn Scott, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Are we all the people we ever were, at all times, everywhere? Are we all the people we never were, somehow, all the people we dreamed we might be?

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 Evening Star, by George Kalogeris, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. It was originally printed in the Harvard Review. Kalogeris's latest collection, published last year, is the gorgeous Winthropos, 

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Yvor Winters.

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 Moonlight, by Yvor Winters, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Do you ever conjure up the voices of those you love and loved? Do you wonder where they are, now that they are no longer here on earth? Does their laughter echo in your heart?

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, How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, by Lauren K. Alleyne, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. You can find more information about her, including more of her gorgeous poems, on her website: https://laurenkalleyne.com/Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].

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It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Charles Reznikoff.

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 city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves,], by Charles Reznikoff, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected]. 

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Have you ever tried, with all your might, to the point of exhaustion, to make someone else happy?

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, Currency: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben, by Lee Ann Roripaugh, is featured here with kind permission of the poet and was originally published in Boulevard. It was later reprinted in Verse Daily. In addition to being a poet and the former South Dakota Poet Laureate, Lee Ann Roripaugh is a professor of English at the University of South Dakota and the Editor-in-Chief of the South Dakota Review.  Words by Winter can be reached at [email protected].