Open Windows Podcast

As I have suggested in my past few programs, "remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. Today I read poems about being poor in America, living in and remembering a place that, at least in the popular imagination, is a place where poverty and its consequences seem to be endemic in profoundly visible ways. That is, living in Appalachia. I read poems by Hayden Carruth, Jean Ruth Ritchie, Loretta Lynn, Billy Edd Wheeler, Lee Howard, and Wendell Berry.