Open Windows Podcast

We had our first significant snowfall and the horizon is white. I was struck by that whiteness, so I read poems today that use the color white -- directly or indirectly -- to create texture, to control mood and tone, to provide symbolic or metaphoric significances, and to create and direct images that resonate connotatively for different readers. I read poems by Emily Dickinson, A.E. Housman, Robert Frost, Philip Larkin, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, and Wisława Szymborska. I end the program with two of my own poems.