Today’s program follows up on an earlier program about how sound is incorporated into poetry. This episode considers the opposite of sound – “silence” – and how the idea and fact of “silence” may be referred to and explored in poetry. I begin with a look at the idea of the “sound of silence” as presented by Paul Simon in his song “The Sound of Silence.” I read poems by Robert Frost, Steven Schroeder, Paul Friedrich, and Sandra Becker that resonate with the notion of the “sound of silence” and end with two of my own poems that present a similar theme.