Focus on Flowers

Ling reads from her new manuscript called Settlement, dealing with the Palestinian Territories and the reservations of the United States.

Mahonias are robust, small shrubs that combine well with other evergreens such as conifers and hollies.

An obscure composer from the end of the sixteenth century

Dauro reads his poems "Orfeo's Nocturne," "Ode to a Black Glass Marble," and "Haiku for Don Belton."

Black haw is native to woods and stream banks from Connecticut to Wisconsin and south to Texas and Georgia.

This week, an ancient instrument serves as the muse for new music.