I read poems about the Brooklyn Bridge today, during the beginning of the month named for the two-faced god Janus, and ask you to consider how both this month and bridges point in two directions, both forward and backwards, to the past and to the future, to memory and to prophecy. I read poems by Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Jack Kerouac, Harvey Shapiro, and Alfred Corn.  I end the program with one of my own poems.