Open Windows Podcast

To continue my discussion of poetry as a transformation of experience that is a product of the lyrical imagination, I follow up my consideration of surrealistic poetry with examples of magical realist and fantasy poems. These three threads are layerings of the essential core of imaginative writing and affirm how poetry is a form of transformative aesthetic expression that enables us to explore the world beyond the limits and constraints of what we individually know about it. I read poems by Pattiann Rogers, Elise Cowen, Benjamin Péret, David Gascoyne, William Butler Yeats, and Kerry Shawn Keys.  I end the program with one of my own poems.