Lola Haskins teaches poetry in Pacific Lutheran University's low residency MFA program. She is available for readings, workshops, and consulting.   For  rate information, please email her.   Still the Mountain, forthcoming in 2010 from Paper Kite Press, will be Ms. Haskins' ninth book of poems. Her in-print collections include Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems  (BOA Editions, 2004), Extranjera (Story Line, 1998) and 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), Castings (Countryman Press, 1984), and  Planting the Children, (University Press of Florida, 1983), though out of print, can be ordered from this web site but Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful (State Street,1990)  is in fact out of print. Ms. Haskins prose writings include an advice book for people interested in poetry, Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters, 2007), Solutions Beginning with A, fables about women,illustrated by Maggie Taylor (Modernbook, 2007), and Wild Angels, stories from fifteen Florida cemeteries, forthcoming in 2010 from the University Press of Florida.  The past ten or fifteen years have seen ventures into the natural world via two books published by the University Press-- an essay intoducing a book of photographs, Visions of Florida, followed by another interpreting the Florida environment in Wild Heart of Florida, (the proceeds of which go to Nature Conservancy) and one, Book of the Everglades, published by Milkweed.  Ms. Haskins' most ambitions venture into environmental prose so far is a book-length collection of personal essays beginning in state parks, called Wind, the Grass, and Us. On another note, she has written a play based on Castings.  Ms. Haskins very much enjoys collaborating with artists from other disciplines.   Her most recent experience in this vein was a March 2008 performance with dance and cello at the Hippodrome State Theater.  Favorite past ventures include a commission from Dance Alive to write and perform monologues inspired by Cindy Sherman photographs, playing the speaking Mata Hari, a part she wrote for a ballet of that title,  performing Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano, with composer James Paul Sain and pianist Kevin Sharpe, collaborating with Paul Richards on a song cycle based on Forty-Four Ambitions, and having her work interpreted by painter Ruth Harley, printmaker Ken Kerslake, and photographer Diane Farris.  She also particularly enjoys radio and does as much of that as she can on her local NPR station, WUFT-FM. .