Words by Winter

I'm preparing my garden for winter as this episode airs, and feeling nostalgic for its summer glory, something that the poet seems to feel as well. 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 Garden by Moonlight, by poet and translator Amy Lowell, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Oh, the fathers. The fathers and those who stand in for fathers. My own father is gone now, and how I miss him.  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, Dressing My Father-in-Law for Burial, is by Benjamin Cutler and is included in his new collection Wild Silence, forthcoming in October 2024. It's featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out more of his beautiful work. 

Sterling A. Brown's work stays with me, making me think about childhood, and the things we leave behind, but why? 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, Return, by writer, poet and teacher Sterling A. Brown, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

All summer, he's hiddenhis voice, no matter how I begged forjust one song.Three lines from "Music Box" which, to me, encapsulate the love and anger and longing that siblings can feel for each other, all in the same moment. Families are complicated. 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, Music Box, by Rhett Iseman Trull, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out more of her beautiful work. 

Sometimes a simple poem, filled with a kind of resigned longing, belies the long meanderings of an extraordinary and complicated life. 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, So We'll Go NoMore A-Roving, by Louis Untermeyer, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

What are some of the most important things you've left off your resume, the kind of things that in your heart of heart are most important to you? Poet Joyce Sutphen lists some of hers, in this gorgeous poem.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, Things You Didn't Put on Your Resumé, by Joyce Sutphen, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out more of her beautiful work. 

I tend to shy away from rhyme, thinking it'll be all jingly, but guess what? I'm so often wrong.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, Faith, by Louis Untermeyer, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

To be loved by someone the way our couches love us? That's a beautiful thing, at least to someone like me, who personifies the furniture in her home. 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, Ode to a Couch, by Chris Abbate, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out more of his work at http://www.chrisabbate.com/about-me.html.

"Must I alone, my once, my own?" laments the poet. We've all been there, haven't we?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, Gone With the Swallows, is by Arab-American writer and poet Ameen Rihani and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

What if we cared for everyone in pain, everyone suffering, the way we would care for our own child? 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, Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege, by Joseph Fasano, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out more of his work at josephfasano.net or on Instagram.

This poem, Challenge, by Sterling A. Brown, has haunted me --not in a bad way, in a wondering sort of way--since I first came across it.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, Challenge, by writer, poet and teacher Sterling A. Brown, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Our physical bodies hold clues to what we're most drawn to do in life, or what we spend so much of our time doing, or where and how and with whom we've lived. 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, Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, by Jessica Tanck, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to check out her forthcoming collection, Winter Here , due out early in 2024 from the University of Georgia Press. 

There's something magical about this little poem, its lilt and wonder, its questions and imaginings.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, eWhere Go the Boats, is by British writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

Sometimes you look at something you've seen a thousand times and suddenly you know something about it, or about yourself, that you never knew before.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, Keel, by Keith Leonard, is featured here with kind permission of the poet.  I encourage you to look up his collection, Ramshackle Ode, published by Ecco Press.

Sometimes you just want a poem that swings and sways and washes in and out and carries you along with it, the way the sea does. 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, Sea Fever, by British poet John Masefield, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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.

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. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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.

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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.

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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.Click here for more information about Rosanna Young Oh, and click here for more information about Diode Editions. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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/.

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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/.

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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/. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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/. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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.

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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, 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

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 wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Robert Frost, an American poet known for his poems set in the New England countryside, often focused on an aspect of the natural world, especially winter, that opens a window into the human soul.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, Riders, by Robert Frost, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com. 

If we could come back to life somehow, in some form, how might we appear to the ones we love?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 Fancies, by Mrs. Minot Carter, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Laura Riding Jackson.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 Spring Has Many Silences by Laura Riding Jackson, is in the public domain.  Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay in Sunny Ville, Jamaica in 1889.  McKay wrote both poetry and prose, and he was another key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the prominent literary movement of the 1920s and 30s that I often mention here on the podcast. 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, After the Winter, is in the public domain.Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

Ever look around you, questioning so many decisions you made or didn't make along the way, and  feel as if everyone else has it somehow figured out better than 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 composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem, Allegiance, by Hannah Marshall, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. Check out more of her gorgeous work here: https://hannahmarshallpoet.com/.Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

It's a Poetry Snack, featuring Clarissa Scott Delaney.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, Joy, is in the public domain and was written by Clarissa Scott Delany, born Clarissa Mae Scott, who was an African American author of essays and poems, teacher, and social worker active during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, a hugely influential outpouring of art of all kinds from Black artists in Harlem nearly a century ago. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.