Focus on Flowers

Kinzee Ellis is pursuing her MFA at Indiana University. Her awards include the Neal-Marshall Fellowship from Indiana University, a Select Scholarship offer from the Summer Literary Seminars Fiction and Poetry Contest, and the Academy for American Poets Prize Award for Loyola University.

Since the poem I read mentions “gilly flowers of gold” it is likely that the poet John Drinkwater was referring to the European wallflower that has spikes of yellow blooms with brown markings. Wallflowers are still frequently seen in English gardens even today, though they are rarely grown in America.

Christopher Citro reads the poem "Ugo" 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.

Duo Amade performs Mozart's sonatas for violin and keyboard (Chandos), and the L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble plays Myslivecek's complete quintets and octets (CPO).

Early clarinetist Eric Hoeprich answers questions about his instrument, ensemble (Nachtmusique), and other projects.

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.