COVER STORY
Gardens
Kurt Andersen and environmental journalist Michael Pollan talk about the garden and the relationship artists have to the botanical world.

Stanley Kunitz
Poet Stanley Kunitz has spent much of his 95 years working in gardens. We visit the former U.S. Poet Laureate on the tip of Cape Cod as he tends the lush green plot behind his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Produced by Wesley Horner.
Go to Academy of American Poets page
Go to Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

Garden Music
WNYC's John Schaefer unearths a variety of musical garden motifs from traditional folk songs to Bobby McFerrin.
Go to Bobby McFerrin's website
Go to Derek Jarman site with photos of his garden

Maize Maze
Jack and Donna Coleman have carved an elaborate maze into a small - and now musical - cornfield in Paradise, Pennsylvania. They, and dozens of families around the country are betting the farm on "agri-tainment," hoping to lure in tourists who literally want to get lost. Produced by Fred Mogul.
Go to The CornMaze Network
Go to Cherry Crest Farm's Corn Maze

SPECIAL GUEST
Michael Pollan
is the author of The Botany of Desire - A Plant's Eye View of the World. Pollan has been gardening since he was a boy and has been writing about gardens and nature since the mid-1980's as an environmental journalist. His other books are Second Nature: A Gardener's Education and A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder.
Go to a Pollan interview on Talking Plants
Read the first chapter of The Botany of Desire

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Commentary
Life Goes On in the Garden.
Read the full text

Roy De Carava
Sara Fishko talks to a photographer who for decades has been looking at the joys and sorrows of the human condition.
Go to pictures from The Sound I Saw

Sound Painting
Musicians, actors, dancers, and singers collaborate on the inventive compositions performed by Walter Thompson's orchestra.
Go to Walter Thompson Orchestra website