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288: Weird Sad and Silent by Alison McGhee – Summer Reading Spectacular
Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Alison McGhee, author of Weird Sad and Silent, about her childhood experiences with libraries, themes like childhood trauma, resilience, and the importance of being seen, and the real life inspiration for the librarian character in the book! And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Library Reads and Lindsey Dunn from NoveList offer reading recommendations related to Alison’s book. Read the transcript! In this touching novel by the acclaimed author of Telephone of the Tree, an intriguing new boy at school helps Daisy cope with both...
2025-06-17
00 min
Circulating Ideas
288: Weird Sad and Silent by Alison McGhee – Summer Reading Spectacular
Continuing the 2025 Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Alison McGhee, author of Weird Sad and Silent, about her childhood experiences with libraries, themes like childhood trauma, resilience, and the importance of being seen, and the real life inspiration for the librarian character in the book! And in The Circ Desk segment, Rebecca Vnuk from Library Reads and Lindsey Dunn from NoveList offer reading recommendations related to Alison’s book. Read the transcript! In this touching novel by the acclaimed author of Telephone of the Tree, an intriguing new boy at school helps Daisy cope with both...
2025-06-17
00 min
Change Champions
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Embracing Purpose in Leadership with Alison Conigliaro-Hubbard | Ep6
In this episode of Change Champions, we dive into a powerful conversation with transformative leadership coach, Alison Conigliaro-Hubbard. After a 26-year career in global corporate tech, Alison faced a life-altering health crisis that reshaped her perspective and led her to redefine success on her own terms. She now helps high-performing professionals align their personal values with their professional ambitions, empowering them to break through limitations and lead with authenticity. From navigating personal transformation to building her innovative "Take the Reins" leadership program, Alison shares profound insights on self-discovery, growth, and the art of impactful leadership. Whether you're seeking inspiration...
2025-01-15
56 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, February Twilight, with Sara Teasdale
Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring Sara Teasdale.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, February Twilight, is by Sara Teasdale and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2022-02-16
03 min
Words by Winter
Half a Life from Then, with Jay Hopler
Send us a textSometimes a poem takes your breath away with the gorgeous sweep of its memory, and by its refusal to look away. 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, love & the memory of it, by Jay Hopler, is featured here with kind permission of the poet...
2022-02-01
10 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, with Robert Frost
Send us a textIt's another poetry snack with Robert Frost, a New Englander whose poems often center on that solitary, sensory landscape.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, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can...
2022-01-19
04 min
Words by Winter
The World We Make, with Alfred Grant Walton
Send us a textA listener named Esty writes in about a tough work situation. Work, even work we love, takes up so much of our energy and time, and when things go south, it's painful. I went in search of a poem to help Esty through. 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 Ga...
2022-01-04
11 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, advice from Carl Sandburg
Send us a textToday's poetry snack is adapted from a poem by Carl Sandburg.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. The original version of today's poem (below) is titled A Father to His Son, by Carl Sandburg, and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmai...
2021-11-30
07 min
Words by Winter
A Spider Spun Out of Silk Thread, with Sarah Freligh
Send us a textToday's featured poem, Wondrous, encompasses so much about life as a child and life as a grownup. That long tunnel of years between childhood and the point at which you look back on it and think Now I know why my mother was crying, because you yourself now cry at the same thing.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 Dy...
2021-11-23
07 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, Bare November Days, with Robert Frost
Send us a textIt's a poetry snack, with Robert Frost, a New Englander whose poems often center on that solitary, sensory landscape.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 November Guest, by Robert Frost, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsb...
2021-11-16
03 min
Words by Winter
When We Were Kids, with Robin Rosen Chang
Send us a textWho were your childhood friends? Do you remember them? Much happens in childhood, much good, much bad, much of it experienced with the friends we had back then. Sometimes my childhood friends and I look back through the lens of time and talk about long-gone days. 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. Art...
2021-11-09
08 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Edgar Allan Poe
Send us a textIt's a post-Halloween poetry snack, with Edgar Allan Poe.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, "Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-11-01
05 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with ee cummings
Send us a textIt's a poetry snack, with Edward Estlin Cummings, who went by his initials, always lowercased, ee.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, "All in green went my love riding," by ee cummings, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com...
2021-10-25
04 min
Words by Winter
How the Play Should Go, with Joe Mills
Send us a textWhat exactly is competition? What does it mean to be a team player? How do you know if you're competitive, and can you be competitive with yourself? 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, "Turning," is by Joe Mills. It comes from his book "This Miraculous Turning" (Pre...
2021-10-18
08 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with "The Letter" by Amy Lowell
Send us a textIt's a Poetry Snack, featuring poet Amy Lowell.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 Letter, is by Amy Lowell and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-10-12
04 min
Words by Winter
Our Most Basic Imperative, with Ellen Bass
Send us a textA listener in Georgia named Perron writes in about her relationship with her daughter. It's a complicated relationship, like so many between parents and children, full of fear and love and a specific heartache both contemporary in form and ancient in experience. Perron asked for a poem, and we turned to Ellen Bass.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 Dy...
2021-10-06
09 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg
Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg.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, River Roads, is by Carl Sandburg and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-09-28
03 min
Words by Winter
I Still Feel Like, with Eileen Myles
Send us a textAre there people in the world you owe? People you think about, and wish you'd thanked, or more than thanked, at the time, but out of shock, or because you weren’t thinking straight, didn’t? 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, At a Waterfall, Reykjavik, by Eileen...
2021-09-21
10 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Robert Frost
Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with 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, Acquainted with the Night, by Robert Frost, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-09-14
04 min
Words by Winter
To Live in a Body, with Danusha Lameris
Send us a textWhere and when in the wide world do you feel most alive? Most at one with your physical body, full of its beautiful power?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, Bird, by the wondrous Danusha Lameris, is read with her kind permission. Words by Winter can be re...
2021-09-07
10 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Christina Rossetti
Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Christina Rossetti.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, Who Has Seen the Wind? is by Christina Rossetti and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-08-31
04 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Emily Dickinson
Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, with Emily Dickinson, whom your recalcitrant host is learning to appreciate.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 is by Emily Dickinson and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-08-24
04 min
Words by Winter
I Raise My Hand, with Robert Okaji
Send us a textWhen a small decision --to raise your hand, to walk through an unfamiliar door--reverberates throughout your life, changes the way you live, and think, and look at the world.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 poetic essay, Thirty-Five Years Ago, I Raise My Hand, is by poet Rob...
2021-08-17
15 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with A.E. Housman
Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with A.E. Housman.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, To an Athlete Dying Young, by Alfred Edward Housman, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-08-10
05 min
Words by Winter
Like the Walls of a House, with Kirsten Dierking
Send us a textListeners write in with stories of unexpected twists and turns and how their lives changed as a result.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, Lucky, by Kirsten Dierking, is used with the poet's kind permission.. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-08-03
28 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Amy Lowell
Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with Amy Lowell, who loved and wrote Imagist poetry, full of precise visual imagery. 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 London Thoroughfare, 2 a.m,, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reache...
2021-07-27
06 min
Words by Winter
For All the People I Have Been, with John Zdrazil
Send us a textMy friend and I held hands in his living room and talked and laughed and cried. We both knew it would be our last conversation.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 All the People I Have Been, by John Zdrazil, is used without his permission, bec...
2021-07-20
15 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Angelina Weld Grimke
Send us a textIt's a twice-monthly Poetry Snack, this time with Angelina Weld Grimke, whose poems, written a century ago, feel fresh and alive,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 is by Angelina Weld Grimke and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be re...
2021-07-13
04 min
Words by Winter
Naming What Isn't Here, with Lisa Dordal
Send us a textA listener named Julie writes in, wondering how she can keep her mother in her life and also keep her own sanity.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 Mother Is a Peaceful Ghost, by Lisa Dordal, is used with kind permission of the poet, who can...
2021-07-06
09 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack: The Fog, by Carl Sandburg
Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Carl Sandburg. Note that we will be off the month of June - please check out the archives for episodes you may have missed or want to hear again.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 po...
2021-05-24
04 min
Words by Winter
Words to Keep the Soul Alive, with Joyce Sutphen
Send us a textSometimes, in an awful time, cruelty can feel more common than kindness. How do you shore yourself up? 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, What to Do, by Joyce Sutphen, was read by Mark Garry and used with kind permission of the poet. Words by Winter can b...
2021-05-18
11 min
Words by Winter
Splendiferous, with Chen Chen
Send us a textMy young trans friend sent me a photo the other day in which he wore a necklace and a lacy flowered shirt and a big happy grin. This is my favorite photo of you ever! I wrote back.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, Summ...
2021-05-11
07 min
Words by Winter
A Constant Gnawing, with Karen Bjork Kubin
Send us a textEver wanted to be someone else? Something else? Escape something that you can't --not yet, anyway-- escape? 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, Mouse, by Karen Bjork Kubin, was read by the poet herself, and is used with her kind permission.
2021-05-04
10 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Sara Teasdale
Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Sara Teasdale.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, Barter, is by Sara Teasdale and is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-04-27
03 min
Words by Winter
What Difference It Make, with Wang Ping
Send us a textDid you know that until maybe 200 or 250 years ago, the word “they” was perfectly acceptable as a singular pronoun? Times change, language is malleable, and poems reflect both these truths. 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. Today’s poems, Syntax and its next generation version, immigrant can’t write poetry...
2021-04-20
13 min
Words by Winter
Little Lamps that Light the Way, with Robert Hedin
Send us a textWhat are the little phrases and lines and words that keep you going?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, Owls, by Robert Hedin, is used with his kind permission and was read by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at word...
2021-04-12
07 min
Words by Winter
A Door She Can't Find, with Connie Wanek
Send us a textA listener writes in about a dream she keeps having. She's in a house she doesn't recognize, looking for a door she can't find.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 Accordion” by Connie Wanek, is read with kind permission of the poet and...
2021-04-06
08 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Fenton Johnson
Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Fenton Johnson.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, Revery, by Fenton Johnson, is in the public domain and was read by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-03-30
04 min
Words by Winter
Hope for the Past, with David Ray
Send us a textHope for the future feels familiar, but what about hope for the past as well? A listener in Texas wrote in hoping for a poem that might bring him some comfort. 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, Thanks, Robert Frost, written and copyrighted by David Ray, w...
2021-03-22
10 min
Words by Winter
What We Sing About When We Sing, with Stephanie Niu
Send us a textDid you used to sing a lot when you were a kid? Does music from your past bring you straight to a specific place, a specific time, specific people? 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 beautiful poem, A Lao Jia Song Is a Son...
2021-03-15
10 min
Words by Winter
Little Things, with Naomi Shihab Nye
Send us a textAnswers to the question "Tell me about an object in your home that you love, will you? One that has special meaning, maybe only to 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 additional readers are Devon O'Brien and Matthew Colfax. Naomi Shihab Nye’s beautiful poem Daily is r...
2021-03-09
19 min
Words by Winter
Poetry Snack, with Elizabeth Coatsworth
Send us a textIt's an end of the month Poetry Snack, with Elizabeth Coatsworth.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, Swift Things Are Beautiful, is by Elizabeth Coatsworth. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2021-02-28
05 min
Words by Winter
Feeling the Big Feelings, with Jessy Randall
Send us a textHow do we learn to cope with "the big feelings" and understand that we are more than them? More than our times of depression, more than our thoughts of suicide. We are also our times of lightness and laughter, love and redemption. 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.If you or someone you love are depressed or suicidal, call 1.800.273.TALK, or if you prefer texting, text NAMI to 7...
2021-02-23
25 min
Words by Winter
Calling Us Back to the World, with Elana Bell
Send us a textHow do we call ourselves back to the world, call others back to the world? A listener named Olivier, his voice filled with bewildered, anguished love, called in about his two children, who on two successive days last year attempted suicide. 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.If you or someone you love are depressed or suicidal, call 1.800.273.TALK, or if you prefer texting, text NAMI to 741-74...
2021-02-15
24 min
Words by Winter
A Breath in Time, with Rocky Callen
Send us a textIn the depths of depression, how easy it is to forget all the ways that this life is still calling out to us. Join us for a conversation with Rocky Callen, author of the lovely novel A Breath Too Late.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.If you or someone you love are depressed or suicidal, call 1.800.273.TALK, or if you prefer texting, text NAMI to 741-741. Or...
2021-02-09
25 min
Words by Winter
Giving Away the Books, with James Joyce
Send us a textOf the thousands of books on the shelves throughout my house, a solid half are unread. How many will I ever get through? Why is it so, so hard to let them go?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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's quote is from Uly...
2021-02-02
09 min
Words by Winter
What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid? with June Jordan
Send us a textA listener in Germany writes in wondering if there's a poem for those of us who aren't fearless.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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, These Poems, by June Jordan, is read with kind permission of the publisher. Words by Winter can be rea...
2021-01-26
14 min
Words by Winter
Charcoal and Fire, with Emily Dickinson
Send us a textIt’s Dr. Martin Luther King Day, almost two weeks from the day that insurrectionists stormed the Capitol and partially destroyed it as they hunted down their fellow human beings. An event which makes me think of a lie I once told, many years ago. 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, with additional music composed and performed by Ke...
2021-01-18
12 min
Words by Winter
The Sky Fills In, with Maggie Smith
Send us a textIn a letter that might feel familiar to many, a listener named Jeanne from upstate New York writes in wondering how to find her own words, and how to put them forth into the world.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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, At...
2021-01-12
11 min
Words by Winter
Words from Deep in a Somewhere, with Yalie Kamara
Send us a textThinking today about code words, words between people who are close to each other, words passed down over years or a lifetime that have meaning only to the people who share them. 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Besaydoo, by Yalie Kamar...
2021-01-04
14 min
Words by Winter
What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?, with Raymond Carver
Send us a textWhen all is said and done, what do you hope others remember you for?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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem fragment is by the late, great Raymond Carver. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2020-12-28
12 min
Words by Winter
Half a Year and Counting
Send us a textWords by Winter celebrates its first half year of life! Thanks to all the listeners and helpers. 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2020-11-16
14 min
Words by Winter
No One Exists Alone, with W.H. Auden
Send us a textAre we really each other’s enemies? Is hatred and scorn our common enemy? Is there a way to come together? What is the answer here? What even are the questions? 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, from September 1, 1939, by W.H...
2020-11-10
14 min
Words by Winter
The Voyage, with William Butler Yeats
Send us a textA listener from England named Hugh writes in about the poems he found in a notebook after his father's death, poems he never knew his father had written.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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, The Wild Swans at Coole, is by Will...
2020-11-03
12 min
Words by Winter
Blessing of the Animals, with William Butler Yeats
Send us a textA listener from Arizona named Russ writes in about his fear that in the unending awfulness of 2020 he's turning toward animals as a defense against humans. That he's always been a "defender of humans" and doesn't want to turn into one of those people who only loves dogs. 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, with additional music co...
2020-10-26
13 min
Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, Tough Topics
Where We Are by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463012to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where We Are Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Imani Jade Powers, Shaun Taylor-Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee comes a stunning and heartbreaking story of two teens who fight to reunite when one of them is caught in the web of a sinister cult. Micah and Sesame are true best friends. They safeguard each other’s secrets and entwine their dreams. Micah wants to save his parents from the cult leader who calls hi...
2020-10-20
6h 46
Words by Winter
Relics, with Emma Hine
Send us a textTechnology and its gadgets bring the seen and unseen worlds closer, begin to dissolve the boundaries we live by, have believed in. But is it possible that the boundaries were never there to begin 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Youn...
2020-10-20
12 min
Words by Winter
Skin Remembers How, with Naomi Shihab Nye
Send us a textIn the beginning of the pandemic, we did an episode about a listener from the Czech Republic, who had gone two months without touch. . . and now here we are, eight months in.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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Two Countries, is by t...
2020-10-13
10 min
Words by Winter
To Stand and Stare, with William Henry Davies
Send us a textWhat's your definition of a "small luxury"? That morning cup of coffee? Chocolate? Time? 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, with additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Leisure, is by William Henry Davies (I can find no copyright information for it). Words by Winter can be reached at words...
2020-10-06
08 min
Words by Winter
The Body's Bright Wailing, with Danusha Lameris
Send us a textHow does someone survive a childhood spent with a sociopathic parent? My friend Sarah, who was the inspiration behind the character of Sesame in my new novel, not only survived but emerged triumphant, and she agreed to be interviewed for the podcast. Featuring the beautiful poetry of Danusha Lameris.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. Artwork by Ma...
2020-09-28
18 min
Words by Winter
Only the Mountain, with Li Bai
Send us a textAll around my kayak and me and the birds and wildlife, Minneapolis was bubbling and churning with city life. But you wouldn’t know it from where I sat in my orange and yellow and red kayak, in the middle of the lake. 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, "Zazen on Chi...
2020-09-21
07 min
Words by Winter
Speed Reading, with Julie L. Moore
Send us a textIt was a strange job at a strange and broken period of life. But I did have one thing going for me, which was all the books piled in the backseat of the car. 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. Today’s poem, Speed Reading, originally appeared in the Cumb...
2020-09-15
10 min
Words by Winter
Walking Man, with Philip Terman
Send us a textWhen I first noticed Walking Man, I was in my twenties and he probably wasn’t much older. The difference between us was that he never stopped walking. 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. Art by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, Walking to Jerusalem, is by Philip Terman and was re...
2020-09-08
08 min
Words by Winter
Where We Are, with Alison McGhee and Walt Whitman
Send us a textHow do people let their lives be taken over? How does a charismatic person slowly, and inexorably, draw others into his orbit? Why are so many so afraid to stand up to people like that?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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's reading is from Where We Are, by Alison McGhee, which can be...
2020-08-31
16 min
Words by Winter
Trust Fall, with Jon Dee Graham
Send us a textThe thing about trust is that it's not always instinctive. Sometimes it takes effort, and intention, to train your mind on goodness instead of fear. 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem-ish lines from "World So Full," and the song itself, are used with kind permission of musician and artist Jon Dee...
2020-08-25
15 min
Words by Winter
The Great In Between, with Li-Young Lee
Send us a textToday's episode is about a listener named Janet, whose mother is at one end of life, whose new grandson is on the other, and where is she? Held in the the vast in-between of loss and 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today’s poem, “The Hammock,” by Li-Young Lee, is used with the...
2020-08-18
12 min
Words by Winter
The Rope Swing, with Alison Luterman
Send us a textWide-open streets, the snow-capped Rockies, skinny-dipping in Flathead Lake. We were free, free, free. Now I know you can hold a moment of freedom in your heart your whole life long. 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 composed and performed by Dylan Perese. Alison Luterman's poem "Canoe" was read by Luke O'Brien with kind permission of the poet, who can be found at alisonluterman.ne...
2020-08-10
08 min
Words by Winter
What Wearies You, with John Freeman
Send us a textWhat wearies you? What renews you? Who brings you joy? Who exhausts you? When you think of safety and comfort and happiness, what place or person comes to mind? The answers to these questions are already known to 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.Today's poem, Mail, by John Freeman, is read with kind permission of the poet and can be found in his wonderful collection Ma...
2020-08-03
08 min
Words by Winter
How About? with Steve Healey
Send us a textWe're always children, aren't we? We always look for, and depend on in the deepest part of our beings, our parents. We want them to take care of us, to see us, to soothe us, to recognize our accomplishments and our graces. 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. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, "How About?" by St...
2020-07-27
13 min
Words by Winter
Bargain, with a poem by me
Send us a textA listener in Germany writes in with this question: "Are you haunted by moments when something really bad could have happened, an accident, for example, but then things went 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 composed and performed by Dylan Perese. Additional music by musician Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.
2020-07-21
15 min
Words by Winter
Hunger, with Danusha Lameris
Send us a textHave you ever carried a secret inside of you, something crucial that no one in the entire world knows about? Has the psychic weight of it felt like a threat to your existence?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, "Small Kindnesses," by Danusha La...
2020-07-14
22 min
Words by Winter
The Poetry Hut, with poems by anonymous visitors
Send us a textNot all revolutions are loud and violent. Take the poetry revolution, for example. The poetry revolution will not be televised. The poetry revolution is a kind of hand to hand non-combat, silent offerings from a future, kinder world. 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 po...
2020-07-07
20 min
Words by Winter
Say Yes, with Kaylin Haught
Send us a textMy daughter and I were reminiscing yesterday about a time, a few years ago, when we went through a phase where the answer to every question was “Sure.” I don’t say Sure all the time anymore, but the influence of doing so has stayed with me. 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.Kaylin Haught’s fabulous poem can be found on the Poetry 180 site, sponsored by the U.S. g...
2020-06-29
11 min
Words by Winter
The Summoning, with Hafiz
Send us a textRemember when no one wore seatbelts? Remember when every bar and public place and airplane was filled with cigarette smoke? Remember when your gay friends couldn’t get married? Change comes tiny step by tiny step and then, all at once. 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 musician Kelly Krebs. Artwork by M...
2020-06-22
29 min
Words by Winter
The Long Loveliness, with Galway Kinnell
Send us a textYou know the way it feels when you’re fired, or when you find out a bunch of friends were all at a celebration you weren’t invited to, or when someone you love breaks up with you? Like, wait, I mattered that little to you? I'm nothing to you? Even, or especially, when you tried so hard. 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 compose...
2020-06-16
11 min
Words by Winter
A Continual Autumn, with Rumi
Send us a textThe older I get, the softer I want to be. The judgment I carried around when I was young was mostly internal, but it was harsh. And what good did it do anyone? What good did it do me? 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 composed and performed by Dylan Perese, who can be found on Instagram at @dylan.field.perese. Additional music composed an...
2020-06-09
07 min
Words by Winter
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, with Sonya Renee Taylor
Send us a textWhy is it that so many memories of freedom, of wildness, are from long ago? Does the world tell us to rein ourselves in, and do we listen, and learn, and obey? Thinking about this, I posed this question to listeners: “Tell me something you love, something you see as beautiful, or magical, or miraculous, about your own physical body, will 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.Or...
2020-06-02
19 min
Words by Winter
My Beloved Penpal, with Eileen Sheehan
Send us a textOne of my most precious friendships began with a single letter and turned into eighteen years of letters. Five years after Garvin's death, I still think about him every day. 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. "My Father, Long Dead," by poet Eileen Sheehan, is used with permission of the author. It can be found in her beautiful collection "The Narrow Way of Souls," published by Salmon Poet...
2020-05-26
13 min
Words by Winter
Turn Around, Turn Around, with Dante Di Stefano
Send us a textThe high school graduations of my children were a strange mix for me of pride and love and loss. Listeners wrote in about their feelings surrounding their own children's graduations, and their heartfelt responses make me feel less alone in the bittersweetness of the memories.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. Poet Dante Di Stefano’s "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)” originally appeared in The Ac...
2020-05-19
16 min
Words by Winter
Breathe in Fear, Breathe Out Calm, with Sean Thomas Dougherty
Send us a textWhat does it mean to write for children in a collapsing world? Writer Marion Dane Bauer explores this question, and the roots of her own wonderment and awe, in a conversation with Alison. 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. Poet Sean Thomas Dougherty’s poem Why Bother, used with his permission, is from his book The Second O of Sorrow, published by BOA Editions. Original theme music comp...
2020-05-13
12 min
Words by Winter
Two Months Without Touch, with Ellen Bass
Send us a textA listener named Ellen, originally from the U.S. but living in the Czech Republic, writes in to share what's on her mind and heart, thoughts and feelings so specific to this time but also so universal, 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. "If You Knew," by Ellen Bass, is from her beautiful book The Human Line, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2007 and used with permission of...
2020-05-04
11 min
Words by Winter
Full of Sorrow, Full of Thanks, with David Hernandez
Send us a textA couple of weeks ago I asked readers to tell me what they were struggling with, and responses came rolling in. Then I asked them to tell me what they're thankful for, and the floodgates opened. Sorrow and thanks, in equal measure, both of which make me think of one of my favorite poems, by David Hernandez.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. "Anyone Who Is Still Tr...
2020-04-26
16 min
Words by Winter
The Boy on the Bus, with Hafiz
Send us a textDo you ever wish you could go back in time? Undo things? Make someone's life better? Today I’m back in third grade, thinking about a boy I grew up with, a boy who sat a few desks away from me, a boy I was scared of my entire childhood. 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. "With that Moon Language," by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, is in...
2020-04-23
09 min
Words by Winter
Late Night Worries: Intro to Words by Winter, with Jessy Randall
Send us a textLong ago, on a night full of stars, I was alone and terrified. My cell phone was in the back pocket of my jeans and I reached for it and punched in a number I had memorized, then sat with my heart pounding as someone picked up. 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. "Suicide Hotline Hold Music," by Jessy Randall, is used with permission of Red Hen Pre...
2020-04-22
09 min
Begin The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Now, Thriller Fans!
The Opposite Of Fate by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569010to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite Of Fate Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the decisions that were made about her body—without her consent—in this powerful novel of reclamation and hope. Twenty-one-year-old Mallie Williams—scrappy, headstrong, and wise beyond her years—has just landed on her feet following a tumultuous youth when the unthinkable happens: she is violently assaulted. The crime leaves h...
2020-02-18
8h 40
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The Opposite Of Fate by Alison McGhee
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569010 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite Of Fate Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the decisions that were made about her body—without her consent—in this powerful novel of reclamation and hope. Twenty-one-year-old Mallie Williams—scrappy, headstrong, and wise beyond her years—has just landed on her feet following a tumultuous youth when the unthinkable happens: she is violently assaulted. The crime le...
2020-02-18
03 min
Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women
The Opposite Of Fate by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569010to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opposite Of Fate Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the decisions that were made about her body—without her consent—in this powerful novel of reclamation and hope. Twenty-one-year-old Mallie Williams—scrappy, headstrong, and wise beyond her years—has just landed on her feet following a tumultuous youth when the unthinkable happens: she is violently assaulted. The crime le...
2020-02-18
8h 40
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What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331932to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Leave Behind Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: “An artful exercise in melancholy…Every reader will love openhearted Will.” —Booklist (starred review) “Haunting, introspective.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Emotionally raw…[A] piercing narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “McGhee artfully illustrates the tangled web wherein grief intertwines with the mundane.” —BCCB After his dad dies of suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him in this ex...
2018-05-15
1h 29
Dive Into This Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook — Perfect During Your Workout.
Pablo and Birdy by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/297305to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pablo and Birdy Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A Parent’s Choice Award Gold Member Winner A boy who drifted into the seaside town of Isla as a baby searches for answers about where he and his parrot came from in this “memorable, fantastical tale” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee. The seaside town of Isla has many stories, the most notable being...
2017-08-22
4h 21
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Pablo and Birdy by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/297305to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pablo and Birdy Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: A Parent’s Choice Award Gold Member Winner A boy who drifted into the seaside town of Isla as a baby searches for answers about where he and his parrot came from in this “memorable, fantastical tale” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee. The seaside town of Isla has many stories, the most notable being the le...
2017-08-22
4h 21
Embrace This Thought-Provoking Full Audiobook — Perfect While Cooking.
Pablo and Birdy by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/202866to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pablo and Birdy Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: mp3 Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins Release date: 08-22-17 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 11 ratings Genres: Birds Publisher's Summary:
2017-08-22
4h 19
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Pablo and Birdy by Alison McGhee
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/297305to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pablo and Birdy Author: Alison McGhee Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: A Parent’s Choice Award Gold Member Winner A boy who drifted into the seaside town of Isla as a baby searches for answers about where he and his parrot came from in this “memorable, fantastical tale” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from New York Times bestselling author Alison McGhee. The seaside town of Isla has many stories, the most notable being...
2017-08-22
4h 21
Picturebooking - interviews with authors and illustrators
051: Alison McGhee – A Tattoo Story
Alison McGhee stops by to talk about her latest picture book, TELL ME A TATTOO STORY. The inspiration behind this book will melt your heart.
2016-04-20
49 min
Embrace: This Next-Level Full Audiobook For Curious Minds.
Maybe a Fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255807to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe a Fox Author: Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie...
2016-03-08
3h 54
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Maybe a Fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255807to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe a Fox Author: Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and...
2016-03-08
3h 54
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Maybe a Fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255807to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe a Fox Author: Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Better...
2016-03-08
3h 54
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Maybe a Fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255807to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe a Fox Author: Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Better...
2016-03-08
3h 54
Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Kids, Animals & Nature
Maybe a Fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255807to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe a Fox Author: Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie...
2016-03-08
3h 54
Download New Full Audiobooks in Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore
Maybe a Fox by Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255807to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe a Fox Author: Alison McGhee, Kathi Appelt Narrator: Alison McGhee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and...
2016-03-08
3h 54
On Track, a CWA podcast's tracks
Ep. 3 Alison McGhee Reading
Alison McGhee is a creative writing professor in the Communication, Writing and the Arts Department. She's also an author of children's picture books and novels for adults and young adults. In this episode, Alison reads an excerpt from her novel All Rivers Flow to the Sea.
2015-11-13
10 min