Tina Hacker coming to Poetry from Daily Life

Hi everyone,

TINA HACKER is a good friend and colleague from our years at Hallmark. Since SANDY and I returned to Springfield in 1973, Tina has continued to work and be a productive writer and her reputation has grown as a poet. She and her husband live in Leawood, Kansas where she has long played a key role in The Writers Place. Her works have been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies. She likes free verse best but dips her toes in other forms like Fibonacci. Tina says that working on a new book is both joyous and excruciating. Two examples are GOLEMS (poetry about this folk character from Jewish folklore) and Listening to Night Whistles (poetry covering a variety of topics, including a true story about the Holocaust.

Tina Hacker has been poetry editor of Veterans’ Voices magazine since 1976. It’s a fascinating and important publication that gives veterans a place to publish stories and poems about their experiences. I’m so glad that Tina has chosen to write her guest column about her work with the magazine these past forty-eight years. Look for her tomorrow (Saturday) in Springfield News-Leader. On Sunday I’ll post a link to the online edition so you can read, enjoy, and share her words. Thank you, Tina Hacker.