Lola Haskins is an American poet.

Lola Haskins
GenrePoetry

Life

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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.

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Works

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Prose

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  • 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ Haskins, Lola (2004). "When Mother". Prairie Schooner. 78 (3): 140. doi:10.1353/psg.2004.0122. S2CID 201742553. Project MUSE 172808.[non-primary source needed]
  2. ^ [1] 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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