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Lola Haskins

Florida

Lola Haskins is the author of Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2004). Her poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." She lives in Florida.

Headshot of writer Lola Haskins with hair blowing in her face.

By Lola Haskins

Column 064

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country

Column 043

To Play Pianissimo