Lola Haskins, Guest Speaker for National Poetry Month

In celebration of National Poetry Month, WAG’s guest speaker is Lola Haskins! The program is free and open to the public. Join us at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, at Millhopper Library and enjoy Haskins’ talk, “How to Keep Growing and Stop Worrying — for Poets and Everyone Else.” She will also share some of her delightful poetry.

Haskins’ 14th collection of poetry, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review. The one before that, Asylum (University of Pittsburgh, 2019), was featured in the NYT Magazine.

Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEAs, two Florida Book Awards, narrative poetry prizes from Southern Poetry Review and New England Poetry Review, a Florida’s Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson prize from Poetry Society of America.

Haskins serves as Honorary Chancellor for the Florida Poets Association.

A book signing will follow the talk. Enjoy samples of Haskins’ work on her website: www.lolahaskins.com/other-works/.