Focus on Flowers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dame Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist and composer who tours regularly throughout the world.

Haines Eason reads his poems "This Town Will Throw Itself at Anyone," "Crickets in an Airtight Jar," and "Musee Mecanique."