Words by Winter

By Alison McGhee

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Episodes: 153

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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.

Episode Date
Poetry in the public domain, with ee cummings
Mar 31, 2026
Poem, with Langston Hughes
Mar 17, 2026
Famous, with Naomi Shihab Nye
Mar 03, 2026
Poetry in the public domain, with H.D.
Feb 17, 2026
Our Other Sister, by Jeffrey Harrison
Feb 03, 2026
Questionnaire, with Alison McGhee
Jan 20, 2026
Claim, with Kasey Jueds
Jan 06, 2026
Poetry in the public domain, with Sara Teasdale
Dec 23, 2025
Cold Solace, with Anna Belle Kaufman
Dec 09, 2025
Nine-Eleven, with Charlotte Parsons
Sep 15, 2025
Poetry in the public domain, with Edward Thomas
Mar 11, 2025
Refusal to Mourn, with Andrea Cohen
Feb 25, 2025
Poetry in the public domain, with Marion Strobel
Feb 11, 2025
Jesus at the Gay Bar, with Jay Hulme
Jan 28, 2025
Poetry in the public domain, with Piyassili of Assyria, 1218 BC
Jan 14, 2025
We Three Kings, with Dante Di Stefano
Dec 30, 2024
Inscrutable, with Dorothy Parker
Nov 22, 2024
Naive, with Tim Seibles
Nov 04, 2024
The Garden by Moonlight, with Amy Lowell
Oct 21, 2024
Dressing My Father-in-Law for Burial, by Benjamin Cutler
Jul 02, 2024
Poetry Snack, "Return," with Sterling A. Brown
Jun 18, 2024
Music Box, with Rhett Iseman Trull
May 21, 2024
Poetry Snack, with George Gordon, Lord Byron
May 09, 2024
Things You Didn't Put on Your Resumé, by Joyce Sutphen
Mar 26, 2024
Poetry Snack, with Louis Untermeyer
Mar 12, 2024
Ode to a Couch, with Chris Abbate
Feb 27, 2024
Poetry Snack, with Ameen Rihani
Feb 13, 2024
Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege, by Joseph Fasano
Jan 30, 2024
Poetry Snack, with Sterling A. Brown
Jan 16, 2024
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, with Jessica Tanck
Jan 02, 2024
Poetry Snack, with Robert Louis Stevenson
Dec 19, 2023
Keel, with Keith Leonard
Dec 07, 2023
Poetry Snack, with John Masefield
Oct 17, 2023
The Miraculous Task, with Joseph Fasano
Oct 03, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Helene Johnson
Sep 19, 2023
Directions to Your College Dorm, with Faith Shearin
Sep 05, 2023
Living in the Moment, with J. Estanislao Lopez
Aug 31, 2023
Poetry Charcuterie Board, with Edna St. Vincent Millay
Aug 22, 2023
Baby Monitor, with George Kalogeris
Aug 08, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Sydney Smith
Jul 25, 2023
A Happy Poem, with Jennifer Givhan
Jul 11, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Lola Ridge
Jun 27, 2023
The Sound of Music, with Kathryn Nuernberger
Jun 13, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Angelina Weld Grimke
May 30, 2023
Picking Blueberries, with Rosanna Young Oh
May 16, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Yone Noguchi
May 02, 2023
Because, with Tim Nolan
Mar 28, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Elinor Wylie
Mar 14, 2023
Driving Without Radio, with Robert Okaji
Feb 28, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Esther Popel Shaw
Feb 13, 2023
May 5, 2020, with John Okrent
Jan 31, 2023
Poetry Snack, with Jonathan Swift
Jan 17, 2023
A Young Man, a Stranger, with Jim Moore
Jan 03, 2023
Poetry Snack: The Aim Was Song, with Robert Frost
Dec 20, 2022
Beyond the Barriers, with Anni Liu
Dec 07, 2022
Poetry Snack, with Elsa Gidlow
Nov 07, 2022
Promises Kept, with CAConrad
Oct 25, 2022
Poetry Snack, with Evelyn Scott
Oct 11, 2022
All the Could'ves, with George Kalogeris
Sep 27, 2022
Poetry Snack, with Yvor Winters
Sep 12, 2022
How could I have known, with Lauren K. Alleyne
Aug 29, 2022
Poetry Snack, with Charles Reznikoff
Aug 17, 2022
Because You Want Her to Be Happy, with Lee Ann Roripaugh
Aug 02, 2022
Poetry Snack: "Riders," with Robert Frost
Jul 19, 2022
If We Could Return, with Mrs. Minot Carter
Jul 05, 2022
Poetry Snack, with Laura Riding Jackson
Jun 07, 2022
Poetry Snack, with Claude McKay
May 24, 2022
Tumbling Towards Understanding, with Hannah Marshall
May 10, 2022
Poetry Snack, Joy, with Clarissa Scott Delaney
Apr 26, 2022
As If from Memory, with C.L. O'Dell
Apr 12, 2022
What Is, with Rumi
Mar 28, 2022
Poetry Snack, Length of Moon, with Arna Bontemps
Mar 15, 2022
How It Began, with GE Patterson
Mar 01, 2022
Poetry Snack, February Twilight, with Sara Teasdale
Feb 15, 2022
Half a Life from Then, with Jay Hopler
Jan 31, 2022
Poetry Snack, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, with Robert Frost
Jan 19, 2022
The World We Make, with Alfred Grant Walton
Jan 03, 2022
Poetry Snack, advice from Carl Sandburg
Nov 30, 2021
A Spider Spun Out of Silk Thread, with Sarah Freligh
Nov 23, 2021
Poetry Snack, Bare November Days, with Robert Frost
Nov 16, 2021
When We Were Kids, with Robin Rosen Chang
Nov 09, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Edgar Allan Poe
Nov 01, 2021
Poetry Snack, with ee cummings
Oct 25, 2021
How the Play Should Go, with Joe Mills
Oct 18, 2021
Poetry Snack, with "The Letter" by Amy Lowell
Oct 11, 2021
Our Most Basic Imperative, with Ellen Bass
Oct 06, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg
Sep 27, 2021
I Still Feel Like, with Eileen Myles
Sep 20, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Robert Frost
Sep 13, 2021
To Live in a Body, with Danusha Lameris
Sep 06, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Christina Rossetti
Aug 30, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Emily Dickinson
Aug 23, 2021
I Raise My Hand, with Robert Okaji
Aug 16, 2021
Poetry Snack, with A.E. Housman
Aug 09, 2021
Like the Walls of a House, with Kirsten Dierking
Aug 02, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Amy Lowell
Jul 26, 2021
For All the People I Have Been, with John Zdrazil
Jul 19, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Angelina Weld Grimke
Jul 12, 2021
Naming What Isn't Here, with Lisa Dordal
Jul 05, 2021
Poetry Snack: The Fog, by Carl Sandburg
May 24, 2021
Words to Keep the Soul Alive, with Joyce Sutphen
May 17, 2021
Splendiferous, with Chen Chen
May 10, 2021
A Constant Gnawing, with Karen Bjork Kubin
May 03, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Sara Teasdale
Apr 26, 2021
What Difference It Make, with Wang Ping
Apr 19, 2021
Little Lamps that Light the Way, with Robert Hedin
Apr 12, 2021
A Door She Can't Find, with Connie Wanek
Apr 05, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Fenton Johnson
Mar 29, 2021
Hope for the Past, with David Ray
Mar 22, 2021
What We Sing About When We Sing, with Stephanie Niu
Mar 15, 2021
Little Things, with Naomi Shihab Nye
Mar 08, 2021
Poetry Snack, with Elizabeth Coatsworth
Feb 28, 2021
Feeling the Big Feelings, with Jessy Randall
Feb 22, 2021
Calling Us Back to the World, with Elana Bell
Feb 15, 2021
A Breath in Time, with Rocky Callen
Feb 08, 2021
Giving Away the Books, with James Joyce
Feb 01, 2021
What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid? with June Jordan
Jan 25, 2021
Charcoal and Fire, with Emily Dickinson
Jan 18, 2021
The Sky Fills In, with Maggie Smith
Jan 11, 2021
Words from Deep in a Somewhere, with Yalie Kamara
Jan 04, 2021
What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?, with Raymond Carver
Dec 28, 2020
Half a Year and Counting
Nov 16, 2020
No One Exists Alone, with W.H. Auden
Nov 10, 2020
The Voyage, with William Butler Yeats
Nov 02, 2020
Blessing of the Animals, with William Butler Yeats
Oct 26, 2020
Relics, with Emma Hine
Oct 19, 2020
Skin Remembers How, with Naomi Shihab Nye
Oct 12, 2020
To Stand and Stare, with William Henry Davies
Oct 05, 2020
The Body's Bright Wailing, with Danusha Lameris
Sep 28, 2020
Only the Mountain, with Li Bai
Sep 21, 2020
Speed Reading, with Julie L. Moore
Sep 14, 2020
Walking Man, with Philip Terman
Sep 07, 2020
Where We Are, with Alison McGhee and Walt Whitman
Aug 31, 2020
Trust Fall, with Jon Dee Graham
Aug 24, 2020
The Great In Between, with Li-Young Lee
Aug 17, 2020
The Rope Swing, with Alison Luterman
Aug 10, 2020
What Wearies You, with John Freeman
Aug 03, 2020
How About? with Steve Healey
Jul 27, 2020
Bargain, with a poem by me
Jul 21, 2020
Hunger, with Danusha Lameris
Jul 13, 2020
The Poetry Hut, with poems by anonymous visitors
Jul 07, 2020
Say Yes, with Kaylin Haught
Jun 29, 2020
The Summoning, with Hafiz
Jun 22, 2020
The Long Loveliness, with Galway Kinnell
Jun 16, 2020
A Continual Autumn, with Rumi
Jun 08, 2020
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, with Sonya Renee Taylor
Jun 01, 2020
My Beloved Penpal, with Eileen Sheehan
May 25, 2020
Turn Around, Turn Around, with Dante Di Stefano
May 19, 2020
Breathe in Fear, Breathe Out Calm, with Sean Thomas Dougherty
May 13, 2020
Two Months Without Touch, with Ellen Bass
May 03, 2020
Full of Sorrow, Full of Thanks, with David Hernandez
Apr 26, 2020
The Boy on the Bus, with Hafiz
Apr 23, 2020
Late Night Worries: Intro to Words by Winter, with Jessy Randall
Apr 21, 2020