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 -- today, mountains -- as source of memory and as springboard for various thematic considerations.  I read poems by Li Po, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Gary Snyder, and Joni Mitchell. I end the program with two of my own poems in which mountains play a visible and important role.