Ramee Label Sampler: Bononcini, Touchemoulin, and Gaultier
Ramee label releases of music by composers Bononcini, Touchemoulin, and Gaultier, as well a look at Pomerium’s Old Hall label recording of Orlandus Lassus.
Jul 12, 2010•59 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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Dustin Nightingale reads "Circo Acuático"
Dustin Nightingale lives in Fargo, North Dakota. His poems have been published in various journals including Margie, Cimarron Review, Stickman and others. His band, the Citronella Hangovers is currently recording their 3rd spoken word album.
Jul 11, 2010•6 min
SunPatiens: Impatiens That Won't Wilt In Full Sun
Plant breeders have been busy, and now SunPatiens® is the newest member of the impatiens family, and as one would guess, it is a sun tolerant variety of the tried-and-true favorite annual. It also is advertised as blooming longer and being bushier than the impatiens that we all use in our shady spaces.
Jul 08, 2010•2 min
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610: New, Old, and Now
Harmonia marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Marian Vespers” of 1610 with performances by Tragicomedia, Concerto Palatino, and the Magnificat Baroque Ensemble.
Jul 05, 2010•59 min
Cate Whetzel's "Lady Xok and the Vision Serpent"
Cate Whetzel grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and studied at Kenyon College and Oxford University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University.
Jul 04, 2010•7 min
Malvas (Mallows): Self Seeding And Abundant For Bouquets
The malva plant is a mainstay in my cutting garden. The flowers are followed by small round seed heads that are similar to wheel-shaped cheeses. Because there are so many of these on each plant, they self seed well, and I have sufficient that the munching deer leave a few for me to enjoy in my bouquets.
Jul 01, 2010•2 min
Wine Expert Allen Dale Olson: The Pontiff of Palate
At the Story Inn in Story, Indiana, wine expert Dr. Allen Dale "Ole" Olson is known as the "Pontiff of Palate." He speaks with WFIU's Daniel Robison.
Jun 28, 2010•48 min
From "Singing Metropole" by Ryan Teitman
Ryan Teitman is finishing his MFA in creative writing at Indiana University and will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University this fall. New poems by him are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Sycamore Review, and Washington Square.
Jun 27, 2010•5 min
Euphorbia (spurge): A Vigorous Relative Of Poinsettia
Euphorbia, commonly called spurge, is related to Poinsettia, as the outer bracts look like flowers. There is usually a single colorful female bract, actually a leaf, surrounded by male bracts born beneath the inconspicuous true flowers.
Jun 24, 2010•2 min
Scottish Percussionist And Composer Dame Evelyn Glennie
Dame Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist and composer who tours regularly throughout the world.
Jun 22, 2010•51 min
Haines Eason reads "This Town Will Throw Itself at Anyone"
Haines Eason reads his poems "This Town Will Throw Itself at Anyone," "Crickets in an Airtight Jar," and "Musee Mecanique."
Jun 20, 2010•5 min
Dwarf Spiraea Shrubs
Because the deer do not eat the spiraeas in my garden, I am becoming more and more devoted to these shrubs. I would never have predicted this would happen, but one’s preferences are often shaped by unforeseen circumstances – in life as well as in the garden.
Jun 17, 2010•2 min
Nonsense Poems of Edward Lear
On this edition of The Poets Weave, Christopher Citro reads nonsense poems by Edward Lear.
Jun 13, 2010•6 min
Waytes and Vivaldi's Angels
Music from the English Renaissance with Piffaro and choral music by Vivaldi with Ensemble Caprice.
Jun 13, 2010•5 min
Writer And Media Critic Ken Auletta
Media critic Ken Auletta in conversation with Owen Johnson
Jun 10, 2010•52 min
Cicely Mary Barker: A Leaf Umbrella
Cicely Mary Barker wrote a poem for children called “The Song of the Nasturtium Fairy.” Like all of her poetry, it is old fashioned and whimsical. She visualizes a nasturtium fairy using a leaf as an umbrella, or as she says, a brolly.
Jun 10, 2010•2 min
British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the British Ambassador to the United States, speaks with Patrick O’Meara and plays two favorite musical selections.
Jun 09, 2010•55 min
Raleigh Lee reads "Smile Cheese" and more
Raleigh Lee will soon receive his MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. At Indiana, he was a reader of poetry and nonfiction for the Indiana Review and the 2010 recipient of the school's Bertolt Clever Writing Prize. Raleigh grew up in Meadville, Pennsylvania, a small town in the northwest part of the state.
Jun 06, 2010•5 min
Nasturtiums: A Peppery Nose Twister
Tropaeolum minor was first found growing in Mexico and Peru and introduced to England in 1574. The English called the plant Indian Cress because the leaves tasted sharp. The peppery taste and characteristic scent led to the name “nasturtium,” which is from the Latin word meaning “nose twister.”
Jun 03, 2010•2 min
Ryan Teitman Reads "A Sunday Box"
Ryan Teitman is finishing his MFA in creative writing at Indiana University and will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University this fall. New poems by him are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Sycamore Review, and Washington Square.
May 30, 2010•5 min
More Hispano and Imagem da Melancolia
Improvisations with the Spanish ensemble More Hispano (Carpe Diem) and Portuguese polyphony with Imagem da Melancolia (Challenge Classics).
May 28, 2010•6 min
Revisiting The Life Of Herman B Wells
This special installment of Profiles revisits the life of the late Indiana University President and Chancellor Herman B Wells.
May 25, 2010•56 min
Haines Eason, "How shall they hear the word of god"
Haines Eason recorded for The Poets Weave while in Bloomington, Indiana to attend and read his poetry as part of the Annual International Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2010 hosted by the Indiana University Department of English's Graduate Students.
May 23, 2010•5 min
Listening to the Iris
These flowers appeal to all of the senses, according to Collette who wrote “I can hear the iris bloom... We too can listen to the iris. And if we are very still and attentive to our flowers, one day like Collette, we may even hear one open.
May 20, 2010•2 min
Journalist And Author Sheryl WuDunn
Sheryl WuDunn is a journalist, lecturer, businesswoman, and co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
May 18, 2010•47 min
Ed Tato, "Pico" and "Sophia" from True Stories from la Cosa Nostra
Christopher Citro reads the poems "Pico" and "Sophia" 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.
May 16, 2010•5 min
Music of Telemann, Haydn, and dall’Aquila
Ensemble Caprice tackles Telemann's Gypsy music, Esterházy Machine plays Haydn's baryton trios, and Paul O’Dette champions Marco dall’Aquila’s lute pieces.
May 14, 2010•7 min
Death of A Flower
Many of us who love to grow tulips in our gardens have visiting deer who love to eat them. It seems to be such a violent death for a bud or flower. The poet E. J.Scovell must not have had deer in her garden because she describes a more gradual demise.
May 13, 2010•2 min
Kelly Wilson reads from "Earthly Fathers"
Kelly Wilson is a graduate student in Creative Writing and English Literature at Indiana University, where she also serves as Assistant Director for the Indiana University Writers Conference. She reads selections from her current project, Earthly Fathers.
May 09, 2010•6 min
J.S. Bach PASSIONS: Matthew, Arabian, and Pitié
Bach's Matthew Passion and two modern works inspired by it.
May 07, 2010•7 min
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