Open Windows Podcast

My program today considers the two faces of poetry -- poem as memory and poem as anticipation -- and presents poems about January, the month named for Janus, the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings who presided over every entrance and every departure, with his two faces looking simultaneously in two directions.  I read poems by Jonathan Swift, Dylan Thomas, William Carlos Williams, John Updike, Denise Levertov, and W.S. Merwin.  I end the program with one of my own poems.