We had the good fortune on the program to have the regular contributions of the award-winning poet, Lola Haskins, who wrote frequently and powerfully about her own childhood, and the experiences of her young grandchildren. Our programs also touch on such “classic” poets as Edward Lear and Ogden Nash, Mother Goose and Carl Sandburg.
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
This recording is part of a collection of poems called Poetry Speaks to Children.
Here’s the next installment in Lola Haskins’ cycle of poems about parenting and grandparenting.
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, […]
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.
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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.
Today, we are continuing the cycle of poems that Lola Haskins has written about her grandchildren, her own children, and about grandparenting and parenting.
