Open Windows Podcast

My program today is about memories, things and people and events remembered. I try to affirm what I believe about the act of writing: that we shape the world through texts and use those texts to present or to hide truths. Those truths, in this context, are often things we remember and shape into something we can grasp and understand and accept or reject.  Once they are on the page, they can be directed and controlled, much more than they ever were as they were unfolding. I read poems by William Shakespeare, Robert Lowell, Hugh Seidman, David Breeden, Patricia Goodrich, and Li Nan.  I end my program with two of my own poems about the remembering.