Lola Haskins

Lola Haskins is an American poet.

Lola Haskins
GenrePoetry

Life

She was born in New York, and raised in northern California. Haskins has lived in San Francisco, Greece, and Mexico. She now divides her time between Northern England and North-Central Florida.

She has published fourteen books—the outliers being a poetry advice book, an exploration of fifteen Florida cemeteries, and a book of prose-poem fables about women, illustrated by Maggie Taylor.

Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Prairie Schooner,[1] The Missouri Review,[2] Mississippi Review,[3] The London Review of Books, Georgia Review, Southern Review.

She taught computer science at the University of Florida for 28 years. Then, from 2004 until 2015, she was on the faculty of the Rainier Writer's Workshop, a low res MFA program based at Pacific Lutheran University.

Awards

Works
  • "Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country", Poetry Foundation
  • "To Play Pianissimo", Poetry Foundation
  • "from CASTINGS"; "from ACROSS HER BROAD LAP SOMETHING WONDERFUL"; "from FORTY-FOUR AMBITIONS FOR THE PIANO"; "from HUNGER"; "from THE RIM BENDERS", Adrondack Review, Fall 2005
  • "Love Story", The Scream
  • "Untitled"; "The Interpreters"; "Five from the Lake", Good Times Santa Cruz
  • How Small, Confronting Morning, Jacar, 2016.
  • The Grace to Leave, publisher=Anhinga year=2012 url=http://anhinga.org/books/book_info.cfm?title=Grace%20to%20Leave
  • Fifteen Florida Cemeteries, Strange Tales Unearthed, publisher=University Press of Florida year=2011
  • Still the Mountain publisher=Paper Kite Press year=2010 url=http://www.paperkitepress.com/shop.shtml
  • Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems. BOA Editions. 2004. ISBN 978-1-929918-49-2.
  • Extranjera. Story Line Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-885266-57-6.
  • The Rim Benders. Anhinga Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-938078-70-8.
  • Hunger. University of Iowa Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-87745-424-3.
  • Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano. University of Central Florida Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8130-1003-8.
  • Castings. Countryman Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-88150-023-3.
  • Planting the Children. University Press of Florida. December 1982. ISBN 978-0-8130-0727-4.
  • Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful, State Street, 1990

Prose
  • Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life. The Backwaters Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-9785782-6-8.
  • Solutions Beginning with A, fables about women. Illustrator Maggie Taylor. Modernbook. 2007.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed, University Press of Florida, 2011

Anthologies
  • Ruth Lepson; Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, eds. (2004). "Message". Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07154-6.

Ploughshares

References
  1. "Project MUSE - Prairie Schooner - When Mother". muse.jhu.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08.
  2. Archived August 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "The Mississippi Review". Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
  4. "NEA Writers' Corner: Lola Haskins". Archived from the original on 2009-08-25. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
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