Author Archives: Christine Hemp

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.

The Four Elements: EARTH

EARTH MUSIC “Fireflies”  OWL CITY from their album “Ocean Eyes” “From a Distance”  NANCI GRIFFITH           from      “Lone Star State of Mind” “ToadEater” Hedningarna   Groda/Wedergrenefrom Northside: NORDIC ROOTS contemp. [..]

Poems and Ponderings

The Four Elements: AIR

SET LIST: “AIR” MUSIC Evergreen “Second Wind” from their album “Common Place” Robert Mirabal Live on Native American Flute “Uta’s Song” from his album “Story of Land” Cathal [..]

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The Four Elements: FIRE

SET LIST:  “FIRE” Music Richard Straus “Four Last Songs: “Frühling” Kiri Te Kanawa   Andrew Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra (Great Performances) Liz Carroll & Johnny Doyle “Before [..]

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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. [..]

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The Five Senses: SMELL

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.  The odors for fruits waft me to my southern [..]

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The Five Senses: TOUCH

TOUCH LITERATURE Diane Ackerman “Natural History of the Senses” Christine Hemp “An Abstract Art” Marie Howe “Practicing” Stephen Dunn, “Tenderness” Brian McGrath “Mad Nude Mommies” Jack Gilbert “Music [..]

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The Five Senses: TASTE

  MUSIC Lyle Lovett “Church” Ned Rorem (to an Andrew Glaze poem “A Journey”) sung by Susan Graham Soundtrack from Big Night “Mambo Italiano” William Byrd “The Great [..]

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The Five Senses: THE EYE

MUSIC “Moving Cloud”  Matt Molloy (“Heathery Breeze”) “When Love Comes to Town” Herbie Hancock & Joss Stone (“Possibilities”) “Fields of Gold” Eva Cassidy (Songbird) “The Chair” George Strait [..]

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The Five Senses: THE EAR

  POEMS  Stanley Kunitz “The Round” Christine Hemp “Outgrowing My Body” Robert Frost “Mending Wall” Celia Rose Langford “Spring” Sandy Diamond “Identity” from her CD Quasimodo and the [..]

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Van Gogh’s Chairs

Van Gogh’s Yellow Chair. Arles, 1888 Van Gogh ached to have friends, artist friends to hang with. He invited Gaugin to Arles that winter of 1888 with high [..]

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