Focus on Flowers

State Of Play 08.04.2018 58:56 ↓

Host Aaron Cain speaks with experts in the fields of games and game design about the role that different kinds of games are playing in our lives.

Autobiography Vol. 6 08.04.2018 4:49 ↓

Eric Rensberger reads "Autobiography Vol. 6," "Flowers on the Graves of the Overdosed," and "Late January."

Edging Plants 05.04.2018 2:00 ↓

A garden looks neat if it has well-defined edges.

Red Fox 01.04.2018 5:37 ↓

Patsy Rahn reads "Red Fox," "Take Your Power," "I Saw You on Television," and "A Child at Easter."

Garden Favorites 29.03.2018 2:00 ↓

What popular flowers do you have planted in your garden?

Izote 25.03.2018 4:40 ↓

Willy Palomo reads "Izote" and "Mark 6:41-42."

Top Sellers 22.03.2018 2:00 ↓

Retailers in the Midwest attend trials in Michigan, where the new plant introductions are grown outdoors en masse.

Carolina Reaper 18.03.2018 4:44 ↓

Patrick Kindig reads "Carolina Reaper," "Saint Joan," and "Ode, after Ross Gay."

Ranked By Popularity 15.03.2018 2:00 ↓

And fourth place goes to... Alstroemeria!

Poet Yalie Kamara 11.03.2018 58:54 ↓

Publisher Dave Torneo speaks with poet Yalie Kamara, who also reads samples of her work.

Time Sensitive Materials 11.03.2018 4:47 ↓

Eric Rensberger reads a series of short poems.

Easter Flowers 08.03.2018 2:00 ↓

The Madonna lily, Lilium candidum, is potted up and sold all over the United States every spring.

Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley 04.03.2018 58:54 ↓

Aaron Cain asks Noah Bendix-Balgley about his musical upbringing, his klezmer concerto, and what it's like to be concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Eating Malombo Fruit in Freetown 04.03.2018 5:55 ↓

Yalie Kamara reads "Eating Malombo Fruit in Freetown, 1989," "Trim," "A Haiku Love Poem for Gabby Douglas," and two more haikus.

Wildflower Center 01.03.2018 2:00 ↓

While the weather remains cold outdoors, we can look online for a flower fix. One site that I enjoy is the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

Author Frank Bill 26.02.2018 58:57 ↓

WFIU's Will Murphy speaks with author Frank Bill and bookstore owner Brian Hawkins.

Oakland As Home, Home As Myth 25.02.2018 4:59 ↓

Yalie Kamara reads her poem "Oakland As Home, Home As Myth."

Shrubs For Shade 22.02.2018 2:00 ↓

The catalogs have arrived in the mail, so we are all thinking about what to order...

Journalist Jamie Kalven 19.02.2018 58:55 ↓

Steve Sanders speaks with Jamie Kalven about issues of press freedom, police accountability, and civil and human rights.

Eric Rensberger's Wintery Mix 18.02.2018 4:54 ↓

Eric reads his poems "Note to Self," "The Blizzard," "Of the Flakes," and "Snow in Three Parts."

Millions Of Roses 15.02.2018 2:00 ↓

About 120 million roses are purchased in the U.S. for Valentine’s Day each year.

A StoryCorps Valentine's Day 12.02.2018 58:54 ↓

A collection of short conversations about love from members of the community who were recorded by StoryCorps, during their visit to Bloomington last summer.

Global Flowers 08.02.2018 2:00 ↓

For Valentine’s Day, most of us will buy flowers, and those flowers are already enroute to us from abroad.

Conductor Patrick Summers 05.02.2018 58:54 ↓

Aaron Cain speaks with conductor Patrick Summers, Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera.

Indestructible Natives 01.02.2018 2:00 ↓

Native plants are well adapted to our growing conditions, and so most of them are easy to grow and need only minimal care once established.