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Of Typewriters and Poems

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lola-Haskins-Typewriters-and-Poems.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 5/23/2006 Top view thirties retro writers desk with typewriter on old wooden background table top. Of Typewriters and Poems Transcript When our daughter D’Arcy was little, we lived in a rented stone cottage in an English village. Every day while she was at school, […]

The Joy of Poetry

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lola-Haskins-Mrs-Robinsons-Joyful-POetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/25/2006 The Joy of Poetry Transcript Mrs. Robinson was my sixth grade teacher. She was a tall, raw-boned woman, who called herself not Martha Robinson–in fact, I didn’t know her first name until I was long an adult–but Mrs. Barnette Robinson, in memory of […]

On Memorizing Poems

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lola-Haskins-On-Memorizing-Poetry.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/12/2006 The term Poetry – dictionary definition highlighted with yellow marker On Memorizing Poems Transcript Because I went to elementary school in a convent, most of my teachers were nuns. But we also had a few lay teachers, one of whom was called Mrs. […]

Poetry Speaks to Children

This recording is part of a collection of poems called Poetry Speaks to Children.

Naps

Today, Lola Haskins reads us her poem "Naps."

Parenthood

Here's the next installment in Lola Haskins' cycle of poems about parenting and grandparenting.

The Tenth Rasa

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Tenth-Rasa-Nonsense-from-India.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/15/2006 The Tenth Rasa Transcript Hollywood is fond of images of heroic nutty professors, of inventors of flubber and of academics who possess peculiar insights into the unlikeliest of subjects. While Michael Heyman, an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, […]

At Twenty-Two Months, Ava Launches Her Poetry Career

Today, poet Lola Haskins continues her series of works with a poem about those connections that children begin making at a very early age if we adults listen carefully.

Will

In our continuing series of new poems by Lola Haskins about her grandchildren, her children, parenting, and grandparenting, we have these reflections during these times of presents on what one mother hopes to leave to her children - her gift to them.

The Sock Puppet

Today, we are continuing the cycle of poems that Lola Haskins has written about her grandchildren, her own children, and about grandparenting and parenting.