Focus on Flowers

Owen Johnson interviews veteran sportscaster and IU alumnus Dick Enberg.

Stafford won numerous awards for his poetry and wrote influential books of essays about writing poetry.

Many of the people I know who do have flower names are mature women, though it does seem there is a resurgence in these flower-related names for baby girls.

A continuation of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s commissions of new works inspired by the Brandenburg concertos of J.S. Bach, The Cardinall’s Musick completes their Byrd Series, and Jordi Savall explores music around Dimitrie Cantemir.

Meng Chiao, know as the "cold poet" (T'ang Dynasty, China), wrote of the remote high mountains and a retreat from civilization.

Shana Ritter hosts this interview with an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer Wendell Berry.

Hoya plants enjoy indirect light and weekly watering, with fertilizer every second week.

"This cold winter Moon spills the inhuman fire Of jewels Into my hands." --James Wright

Perry Metz interviews former Senator Birch Bayh in his Washington, D.C. office, where he continues to monitor court cases about equal opportunity.

Patriotic and devotional music from early America as well as music from New Spain.

Garden designers suggest that a third of garden plants should be evergreen so that there is winter interest.

Harmonia marks the 25th anniversary of Early Music America with a look at its past competition winners. Part one of two looks at the accomplishments of Ensemble La Rota, Asteria, and the Catacoustic Consort. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations perform in featured release of music from the time of Louis XV.

“In the bleak Mid-winter, snow is falling, snow on snow” --Christina Rossetti

Look for the following symptoms if you suspect a cat has been poisoned: vomiting, diarrhea and a staggering gait.

The experimental, largely free verse poems in The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright shocked readers at the time and helped change American poetry.

Henry Purcell's complete odes & welcome songs (Hyperion), and a debut recording of music for viol consort (Lunaris).

This trail-blazing female landscape architect, born in 1869, began her career in 1912. When she died at 81 in 1950, she had designed over 600 gardens.

Ensemble Caprice offers music of Vivaldi, the New London Consort explores Tylman Susato’s “Dansereye,” and Bonporti inventions performed by Chiara Banchini.

Professor and poet Richard Cecil presents themes about students and teachers.

Pergolas provide not only walls, but also ceilings, with the possibility of plants growing between the series of horizontal beams, to create shade.

Some of the best early music heard in the past year.

Professor and poet, Maura Stanton reads her poems "Fortune Cookie," "Stapler," and "Net."

Classical Italian gardens are usually formal and constructed symmetrically with intersecting pathways, a central fountain and clipped topiaries and hedges.

Owen Johnson speaks with Russian journalist, music critic, concert promoter, and broadcaster Artemy Troitsky.

Poet Keith Leonard reads "The Party Wasn't Apocalyptic," "Porky Pig Speaks of Success," and "Two Eggs, Burnt Toast."