Poet and Author Lola Haskins, Guest Speaker for Poetry Month

We are honored to have author and poet Lola Haskins as our guest speaker via Zoom on Sunday, April 11, at 2:30 p.m. She will speak on openings and closings. She’ll begin with how they work in poetry, and then go on to address how the principles she’s laid out apply (or don’t) to prose. We invite everyone to link to this Zoom program. (See link below.)

Haskins’ most recent book of poetry (her 13th) is Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), preceded by How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar) and The Grace to Leave (Anhinga). The latter and Still, the Mountain (Paper Kite) won Florida Book Awards.

Her previous collections include Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions) and The Rim Benders (Anhinga). Two of her out-of-print books, Extranjera and Hunger (which won the Iowa Poetry Prize) will be re-issued by Red Hen this year.

Haskins’ prose works include Fifteen Florida Cemeteries, Strange Tales Unearthed (University Press of Florida), and a big-sister advice poetry book, Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life, originally from Backwaters Press, now re-issued by the University of Nebraska Press. Her books can be found on Amazon or by contacting her at lolahaskins.com.

Link to Join this Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89973131287?pwd=UWc4WXRaaDl0OWVQWmgwbTBiNHdVQT09

Meeting ID: 899 7313 1287