Open Windows Podcast

Poets and other writers have considered the role of monuments in human society and human history. So today, to commemorate Memorial Day, and to follow up on my concluding poem about a Civil War monument from last week's program, I read poems about monuments by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Gordon Henry. I end the program with one of my own poems.