Lola Haskins returns to Poetry from Daily Life Free Video Library

Hi everyone,

More good news. LOLA HASKINS has been added to Poetry from Daily Life Free Video Library with her second recorded column. Here’s the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v16gU2k7gRo

Lola, who lives in Gainesville, Florida, traces her love of poetry to when she discovered AA Milne at the age of four. She’s never looked back since. Her latest collection, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press, 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review and shortlisted for the Hoffer Prize. Lola walks in the woods every day and owes a lot to trees. She has collaborated with dancers, visual artists and musicians, and sings mariachi and Hindu classical music. I’m delighted to welcome her back to the video library for her second appearance. Thank you, Lola!

For those of you who would like to visit the whole 60-voice library, here’s the link to that. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5wGqp5vbw2K0N7cFcGwN5w

Lola Haskins featured on Poetry from Daily Life

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to provide the link to LOLA HASKINS’ guest column this weekend in Poetry from Daily Life. Thank you, Lola, for giving us a second look at your world of poetry and what you share with others. https://www.news-leader.com/story/entertainment/2025/03/16/poetry-from-daily-life-benefit-thinking-like-poet/82341632007/

Lola’s first column appeared November 3, 2024. Here’s the link to that one. https://www.news-leader.com/story/entertainment/2024/11/03/poetry-from-daily-life-poetry-can-change-lives-save-lives/75951672007/

Thanks to all who take the time to share the weekly column with others. That’s how we grow.

Lola Haskins returning to Poetry from Daily Life

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to welcome back to Poetry from Daily Life this weekend LOLA HASKINS from Gainesville, Florida . Her first column appeared on November 3, 2024. Here’s the link to that one. https://www.news-leader.com/story/entertainment/2024/11/03/poetry-from-daily-life-poetry-can-change-lives-save-lives/75951672007/

In her first column, we learned that Lola walks in the woods every day and says she owes a lot to trees. She has collaborated with dancers, visual artists and musicians, and sings mariachi and Hindu classical music. I’m glad that Lola agreed to return to Poetry from Daily Life with a new contribution. Thanks to our sponsoring paper and Editor-in-Chief AMOS BRIDGES, it will appear tomorrow (Saturday) in print in Springfield News-Leader and be repeated on Sunday in the paper’s e-edition. I’ll post the link to that one sometime late on Sunday morning. During the week, the column will appear in six newspapers in three states with a readership of more than 105,000 people. On we go and many thanks to Lola Haskins!

Lola Haskins featured on Poetry from Daily Life

CORRECTION: Since Lola wrote her column a few months ago, I need to correct her number of published books, which now stands at seventeen! Also, in her credits, there should be a space before the link to her website. It works anyway on mine, but you can copy and paste if you need to. Sorry, Lola!

Hi everyone,

Here is another column well worth reading. Florida poet, LOLA HASKINS, has much to say about her love of poetry and how it impacts on us all. https://www.news-leader.com/story/entertainment/2024/11/03/poetry-from-daily-life-poetry-can-change-lives-save-lives/75951672007/

To all who follow my weekly poetry column, I thank you. To all who have taken time to share their views and insights based on personal experience, my special gratitude. We have reached the halfway mark. I look forward to bringing you at least 49 more weekly columns before my term as Missouri Poet Laureate expires.

Lola Haskins featured on Poetry from Daily Life

NOTE: I’ll announce November’s Word of the Month word on Monday.

Hi everyone,

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is LOLA HASKNS, who lives in Gainesville, Florida. I wondered, when I saw her last name, if there might be some distant relationship. My first ancestor to reach America was Bartholomew Hoskins, in 1615. A relative once did a study of Bartholomew and discovered that Hoskins was spelled a dozen ways or so, including Haskins, over the centuries by people who relied on sound to form their spelling.

Back to Lola. I love her column and feel confident that you will too. She has a blue ribbon resume — latest collection, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press, 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review and has been shortlisted for the Hoffer Prize — but more than that, she loves poetry in every molecule of her body. Her column appears today in Springfield News-Leader and tomorrow in the online edition. I’ll post the link to that around midmorning for your reading pleasure. Thank you, Lola!