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. I begin with one of those places -- the ocean -- as source of memory and as springboard for various thematic considerations.  I read poems by Matthew Arnold, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, Pablo Neruda, and Penelope Pelizzon.  I begin the program with two of my own poems about the ocean.