Sunday, September 2 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Poetry Workshop with Lola Haskins

Participants should bring:

• Paper and pen or pencil.
• Up to three poems wanting attention. Lola does not guarantee that all three poems
  will receive critique as she will respond to the interests of the participants.
• An open mind.
• Your own bag lunch for the lunch break.

Cost: $50. Limited to 12 participants. Advance registration and payment required.

To reserve a place, call Dennis Morton at (831) 457-2019.
Checks for $50 made out to Poetry Santa Cruz should be brought to the workshop.
Call first to make sure there is room and to learn the location.
 
 

Lola Haskins gave a similar workshop for Poetry Santa Cruz on March 6, 2005.  She read for us on November 26, 2002 and March 8, 2005.

Lola Haskins teaches in Pacific Lutheran University’s low residency MFA program.  She is recently retired from the University of Florida’s Computer and Information Sciences Department, where she taught applications programming and web design.  2007 brings two new books: an advice book for people interested in poetry—Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press), and Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook), a collection of original fables about women, with images by Maggie Taylor.  Ms. Haskins’ in-print poetry collections include Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2004), Extranjera (Story Line, 1998), The Rim Benders (Anhinga, 2001), Hunger (University of Iowa Press, 1993—winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize), Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (University Press of Florida, 1990/ second edition Betony Press, 1992), and Castings (Countryman Press, 1984/second edition Betony Press, 1992).
 

Poetry Santa Cruz is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.  Poetry Santa Cruz is also sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc., Bookshop Santa Cruz, the National Writers Union Chapter 7, KUSP, Capitola Book Café, Cabrillo College and The Attic.  Membership premiums have been donated by Graywolf Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, Robert Sward, Patricia Grube, Coffee House Press, Copper Canyon Press and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.