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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 […]

Earth Day Reflections

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Earth-Day-Reflections.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 4/20/2006 Earth Day Reflections Transcript Now I think all of us intellectually understand the need to set land aside for when we’re gone. But there’s a long term problem even so because, more and more, we see the out of doors as having nothing […]

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. […]

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.

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.

Ava’s Shells

The poet Lola Haskins joins us again to continue her cycle of poems about her children and grandchildren.

Grandmother Poems

We asked the poem Lola Haskins to share with us some of her thoughts about becoming a grandparent.