Focus on Flowers

Improvisations with the Spanish ensemble More Hispano (Carpe Diem) and Portuguese polyphony with Imagem da Melancolia (Challenge Classics).

This special installment of Profiles revisits the life of the late Indiana University President and Chancellor Herman B Wells.

Haines Eason recorded for The Poets Weave while in Bloomington, Indiana to attend and read his poetry as part of the Annual International Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2010 hosted by the Indiana University Department of English's Graduate Students.

These flowers appeal to all of the senses, according to Collette who wrote “I can hear the iris bloom... We too can listen to the iris. And if we are very still and attentive to our flowers, one day like Collette, we may even hear one open.

Sheryl WuDunn is a journalist, lecturer, businesswoman, and co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Christopher Citro reads the poems "Pico" and "Sophia" from Ed Tato’s True Stories from la Cosa Nostra, a series of poems about the Del Gabbos, a fictional Italian immigrant family living in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ensemble Caprice tackles Telemann's Gypsy music, Esterházy Machine plays Haydn's baryton trios, and Paul O’Dette champions Marco dall’Aquila’s lute pieces.

Many of us who love to grow tulips in our gardens have visiting deer who love to eat them. It seems to be such a violent death for a bud or flower. The poet E. J.Scovell must not have had deer in her garden because she describes a more gradual demise.

Kelly Wilson is a graduate student in Creative Writing and English Literature at Indiana University, where she also serves as Assistant Director for the Indiana University Writers Conference. She reads selections from her current project, Earthly Fathers.