Reviving a Tulip
Sometimes we can prolong the life of a cut flower like a tulip by cutting the stem shorter and placing the flower in deep water in a tall narrow vase, which provides support and keeps the bloom upright.
May 06, 2010•2 min
Focus on Flowers
Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.
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Marcus Wicker, "Some Revisions" and some love letters
Marcus Wicker is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan and holds fellowships from Indiana University’s MFA Program and Cave Canem. Marcus currently serves as Poetry Editor of the Indiana Review. On this extended web edition of The Poets Weave, he reads his poems "Some Revisions," "Love Letter to Flavor Flav," and "Love Letter to RuPaul."
May 02, 2010•7 min
Garlic Chives' Many Virtues Makes Them Worth The Bother
The botanical name is Allium tuberosum, and it produces small globes of starry white flowers in mid-summer and blooms for about a month. The flowers are as attractive to bees as they are to gardeners.
Apr 29, 2010•2 min
Questions for Brian Dickie, Director of the Chicago Opera Theater
Brian Dickie answers questions about the company's history with early opera and their current production of Cavalli's "Giasone."
Apr 29, 2010•5 min
Soprano Angela Brown
Renowned soprano and Indiana University alum Angela Brown is noted for her vocal power, high pianissimos, and larger-than-life personality.
Apr 26, 2010•47 min
The Canadian Brass
The string quartet has three hundred year’s history. A brass quintet has maybe forty year’s history. If you think about it, we have created an opportunity with Canadian Brass. We’ve made it a legitimate ensemble. We’ve brought it to all the major concert stages. Now, the development can start. Now the music starts filling in.
Apr 26, 2010•39 min
from The Poetry Outloud Anthology
Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance. Christopher Citro reads a selection of poems from The Poetry Out Loud Anthology on this edition of The Poets Weave.
Apr 25, 2010•6 min
Ferny Corydalis, an enthusiastic self-sowing perennial
There are about 300 species of Corydalis, both perennial and biennial, belonging to the poppy family. Give these plants full sun to partial shade where summers are not too hot and well-drained soil with regular moisture.
Apr 22, 2010•2 min
Keyboard Music of Froberger: Christophe Rousset and Webb Wiggins
Music for harpsichord and organ by one of the German baroque's most prominent composers before J.S. Bach.
Apr 22, 2010•5 min
Kinzee Ellis
Kinzee Ellis is pursuing her MFA at Indiana University. Her awards include the Neal-Marshall Fellowship from Indiana University, a Select Scholarship offer from the Summer Literary Seminars Fiction and Poetry Contest, and the Academy for American Poets Prize Award for Loyola University.
Apr 18, 2010•6 min
A Gilly-Flower (European wallflower)
Since the poem I read mentions “gilly flowers of gold” it is likely that the poet John Drinkwater was referring to the European wallflower that has spikes of yellow blooms with brown markings. Wallflowers are still frequently seen in English gardens even today, though they are rarely grown in America.
Apr 15, 2010•2 min
Ed Tato, "Ugo" from his book True Stories from la Cosa Nostra
Christopher Citro reads the poem "Ugo" from Ed Tato’s True Stories from la Cosa Nostra, a series of poems about the Del Gabbos, a fictional Italian immigrant family living in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Apr 11, 2010•5 min
Mozart Sonatas and Myslivecek Wind Music
Duo Amade performs Mozart's sonatas for violin and keyboard (Chandos), and the L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble plays Myslivecek's complete quintets and octets (CPO).
Apr 08, 2010•5 min
Questions for Early Clarinetist Eric Hoeprich
Early clarinetist Eric Hoeprich answers questions about his instrument, ensemble (Nachtmusique), and other projects.
Apr 07, 2010•5 min
Joel Salatin and Gary Nabhan
Joel Salatin is a farmer and author who raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry. Gary Paul Nabhan is an ecologist, ethnobotanist and writer.
Apr 06, 2010•53 min
Alyce Miller, On The Theme Of Art And Language
Alyce Miller has published more than 150 poems, stories, and essays in magazines and journals, and is completing a memoir, Home Repair, in addition to a series of essays on animals.
Apr 04, 2010•5 min
Freezing Plants
At this time of year, gardeners must still beware of late freezes. A severe freeze causes water to freeze inside the plant's cells, irrevocably injuring them.
Apr 01, 2010•2 min
Elizabeth Hoover's "Against Minimalism" and other poems
Elizabeth Hoover is the associate editor of Sampsonia Way. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where her scholarship and poetry were recognized by a Project on African Expressive Traditions grant and the Won-Joon Yon Scholarship for Racial Tolerance.
Mar 28, 2010•5 min
Temperature And Its Effects On Emerging Spring Plants
Freezing temperatures at the end of winter may injure plants that have started growing for Spring.
Mar 25, 2010•2 min
IU Professor of Music and Concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis
Jorja Fleezanis is professor of music and the Henry A. Upper Chair in Orchestral Studies at IU’s Jacobs School of Music.
Mar 25, 2010•44 min
Alexander Weinstein's "Post Industrial Love"
Alexander Weinstein has been working as a writing teacher and freelance editor for the past ten years, and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe. His work has appeared in Rio Grande Review, Hawaii-Pacific Review, A cappella Zoo, and Zahir.
Mar 21, 2010•5 min
Questions for Garry Clarke, Director of the Baroque Band
Clarke answers questions about his career, the founding of the Baroque Band, and their forthcoming participation in Chicago's first-ever Early Music festival.
Mar 18, 2010•7 min
Frost: Know Your Zone, Climate And Microclimates
Gardeners need to be aware of the frost dates in their region. This means the date of the last frost in the springtime and the first frost in autumn.
Mar 18, 2010•2 min
Alyce Miller, on the theme of life and stuff
On this extended web edition of The Poets Weave, Alyce Miller reads from the series "The Pacific is a Woman Just Like Me," as well as the poems "Gift," "On Finding A Legless Doll at the Beach Called Park Facing Southeast California," "Heirlooms," and "Sisters to the Bone."
Mar 14, 2010•7 min
Storehouses of energy...the miracle of bulbs!
All types of bulbs have one thing in common and that is that they are self contained storehouses of energy. They burst forth and bloom at their appointed time when the moisture and temperature levels trigger their respective awakenings. It is orchestrated in a way that seems quite miraculous.
Mar 11, 2010•2 min
Anti-Semitism Scholar Robert Wistrich
Robert Wistrich holds the Neuberger chair for Modern European History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author and editor of two dozen books.
Mar 10, 2010•51 min
Magda Sokolowski's "Dreamscape" and other poems
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Magda Sokolowski is currently an MFA poetry student at Indiana University. She was the 2009 recipient of the Creative in Kathmandu Fellowship to study and write in Nepal. On this edition of The Poets Weave, she reads her poems "Dreamscape," "On the Empire Builders," "Implements," and "Saturday Reversal."
Mar 07, 2010•5 min
Music of 18th-Century France: Leclair, Rebel, and Touchemoulin
Tina Chancey performs on the pardessus de viole, Opera Lafayette explores "Zelindor," and Les Inventions discovers little-known works by Touchemoulin.
Mar 03, 2010•7 min
Women in Early Music: Strozzi, Cozzolani, de La Guerre & Leonarda
Music written by some of the most significant female composers of the baroque era.
Mar 01, 2010•59 min
from "For my Cat Jeoffry" by Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart was incarcerated from 1756 to 1763 for a form of religious madness that compelled him to pray constantly, often in the street. During this confinement for religious mania, he wrote the long poem Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb) from which our poem today is taken.
Feb 28, 2010•5 min
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