Focus on Flowers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Freezing temperatures at the end of winter may injure plants that have started growing for Spring.

Jorja Fleezanis is professor of music and the Henry A. Upper Chair in Orchestral Studies at IU’s Jacobs School of Music.

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.

Clarke answers questions about his career, the founding of the Baroque Band, and their forthcoming participation in Chicago's first-ever Early Music festival.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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."

Tina Chancey performs on the pardessus de viole, Opera Lafayette explores "Zelindor," and Les Inventions discovers little-known works by Touchemoulin.

Music written by some of the most significant female composers of the baroque era.

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.

Our winter homes are not ideal environments for cut flowers to flourish in. Fortunately, there are still ways to make sure they have a long life.

Alyce Miller has published more than 150 poems, stories, and essays in magazines and journals. A transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads a double life in Bloomington, Indiana, as a English professor, and as a pro bono attorney specializing in animal rights law.

World premiere recordings of music by Johann Mattheson, Ferdinand Ries, Carl Stamitz, and Johann Christian Fischer.

Laura M.Holson wrote: "Recently floral concoctions and aromatic blossoms have moved out of the kitchen and behind the bar."

One of North America's top baroque oboists answers questions about the instruments she plays, her ensemble, their debut recording, and her upcoming projects.

Vaness has sung on the world’s major stages and at premier music festivals, appeared on TV broadcasts, and compiled a distinguished catalog of recordings.

Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. On this edition of The Poets Weave, host Christopher Citro reads love poems from Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920 A Few Figs from Thistles.

Rose water is a natural tonic that hydrates the skin and helps restore the skin’s moisture balance. It also allegedly firms and refines pores. In addition, it smells divine.

Willens answers questions about his career path, the orchestra he directs, and their recording project known as the Forgotten Treasures Series.