Open Windows Podcast

As I have suggested in my past few programs, "remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. There are essential focuses or common themes that poems that include memories often use. I take a look today at another one of those focuses, memories of places in our lives -- cities-- as sources of memory and as springboards for various thematic considerations. I read poems by Walt Whitman, William Blake, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Nijolė Miliauskaitė. I end the program with one of my own poems in which a city plays a visible and important role.