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Hosted by Alison McGhee · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 156 episodes
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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.
Alison McGhee hosts Words by Winter, a society show with 156 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Do you ever look up on a dark night and wonder what's beyond? Beyond the even lines of Starlink satellites marching their way across the sky, beyond the planes arcing from coast to coast, beyond the star
Send us Fan Mail When I read this poem I thought of the military vets I know, and the invisible/visible scars they carry with them through life. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages
Send us Fan Mail It's my birthday today, my first without my mother, and even though it's ridiculous to feel like an orphan at my advanced age, that's how I feel. This poem feels like just the right one for today. Words
Send us Fan Mail Remember a ritual you did, daily even, in the wake of a loss? A ritual you might not have realized was a way to get you through to the other side? Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems
Send us Fan Mail I've loved ee cummings my entire life, and never once saw his formal name-Edward Estlin Cummings--spelled out in his byline. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of
Send a text Do you ever picture the faces of the people you most love, and feel a kind of ease and comfort wash through you? Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’
Send a text What would you most like to be known for? If a single word could be engraved on your headstone that would describe you, what would that word be? Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about t
Send a text In which I contemplate, with H.D.'s help, how the incredibly long-lasting vase of flowerish plants on my table makes me think of hands, reaching up out of the sea. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections
Send a text Have any of you ever done something or said something that just...flew out of your mouth, or out of your hand, and changed your or someone else's life forever? I've been haunted by this poem for many years no
Send a text The Twin Cities are currently under assault by our federal government. The strength and resolve and steadfast by Twin Citians is an astonishing thing to witness. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections,
Send a text Have any of you ever been pulled back from the brink by a person or animal who loved you? I have. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out the
Send a text Anyone else find themselves, despite all the goodness and wonder in their life, wanting more? This is when I have to stop, and return to the breath of gratitude. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections,
Send a text We're back after an unexpected hiatus to take care of a beloved family member. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to
Send a text It's been a long time, friends. Six months, to be precise. But we're back and we intend to keep coming back. Take heart. We're all in this together. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems abo
Send a text Anyone else out there haunted by the calls of owls, coyotes, wolves, in the middle of the night? Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out ther
Send a text My dog hides nothing: his love, his pain, his hunger, his tiredness. As a result, he tends to get what he wants and needs. I am not like my dog. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about t
Send a text Little things. Tiny things. Things to hold gently. 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. Ori
Send a text So much pain in life, the kind of pain inflicted by humans upon each other because of differing theologies, feels unnecessary to me. Can't we all be who we are? Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, a
Send a text It's a beautiful thing, how a poem written more than three thousand years ago can come shimmering up through the ages, an arrow to the heart. Words by Winter : Conversations, reflections, and poems about the
Send a text Years go by and you live through so many things that don’t turn out as you hope, and you know this will keep on happening. The flip side of this is a kind of gratitude I could not have felt when I was younger
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Words by Winter is hosted by Alison McGhee. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 156 episodes.
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