The Four Elements: WATER

LITERATURE

Christine Hemp  “Cloud”
Bruce Bond “Ravel”
Jeannette Walls “Half Broke Horses”
Rumi “Story Water”

MUSIC

Phillip Glass soundtrack from “The Hours”
Mozart “Adagio for Glass Harmonica K. 617 Bruno Hoffman
Songs of the Humpback Whale  Frank Watlington
Maurice Ravel “Pavane for a Dead Princess” saxophone Claude Delangele, Lan Shui and Singapore Symphony from Works for Saxophone and Orchestra
Alison Krauss “Down the River to Pray” soundtrack from the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Tom Russell & Iris Dement”Big Water Rising”   from the album Long Way Round, Hightone Records
Hiroko Masaki, Ingrid Procureur & Marc Grauwels “Haru No Umi” The Flute Collection Japanese Melodies
Brett Dennen “Ain’t No Reason” from “So Much More”
George Frederick Handel “Water Music” HWV 3480350 Ondrej Lenard & Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Muddy Waters “Stormy Monday” from “Live at Mr. Kelly’s

About Christine Hemp

Poet and writer Christine Hemp has aired her poems and essays on NPR’s Morning Edition; she has sent a poem of hers into space on a NASA mission to monitor the birth of stars; and her essays have appeared in such publications as the Iowa Review, Yale Anglers Journal, and the Boston Globe. Her awards include Harvard Extension School’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing, a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, and an Iowa Review Award. Her poetry collection, That Fall, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. Hemp teaches at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
Poems and Ponderings

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