Barbara Loots added to Poetry from Daily Life Free Video Library

Hi everyone,

I’m glad to say that BARBARA LOOTS (rhymes with coats) has now been added to Poetry from Daily Life Free Video Library. Her column appeared in the newspaper series on August 18, 2024. We caught up with Barbara on an island in Ontario, Canada and she recorded the column for the library.

Barbara, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri, is another poet who found her calling early and was writing poems by 3^rd grade. She says she even made a book of her poems but her piano teacher suggested that she keep practicing the piano. Favorite audience? “I like to write for people with a sense of humor.” Two books that gave her pleasure to write are Road Trip and The Beekeeper and other love poems. She says a unique fact about her is being herself. Hard to argue about that! Barbara currently has poems online at Asses of Parnassus, Light Poetry Magazine, and Pulsebeat.  She is also in the current issue of Light as the Review Editor. 

Barbara and I worked together as editors at Hallmark Cards in the 1960-70s. I’m delighted to reconnect these many years later as poets working on the same project. Thank you, Barbara! And thanks to all who will take a moment to send this link along to others who enjoy good poems and learning about the poets who write them.

Here’s the link to Barbara’s recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgZ7iyx-IbI . And here’s the link to the whole collection of 60 voices. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5wGqp5vbw2K0N7cFcGwN5w