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 people in our lives, particularly in our lives when we were children. This week I read poems about family -- especially as families are remembered -- by Ogden Nash, William Wordsworth, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Michael Luis Medrano, John Yao, and Ruth Stone.  I end the program with one of my own poems.