Today’s program is about how poets often use the fact and idea of water, in all of its forms, as an essential structural motif and as part of an organizing metaphoric and thematic frame. The program takes a quick look at some of the roles water plays in mythological presentations, in early Greek narrative poetry, and in later lyrical poetry. Those later poems include three of my translations that use water in distinctive ways as well as two of my own poems in which water plays an essential role.