Lola Haskins teaches poetry in Pacific Lutheran University's low residency MFA program. She is available for readings, workshops, and consulting.  One great opportunity for people living in the Northeast would be to come to Chatauqua this October (2008) for  a five day workshop.  For other rate information, please email her. 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, a collection of orginal fables about women, with images by Maggie Taylor, a well-known artist who has twice been featured in Georgia Review (Modernbook).  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).  Planting the Children, (University Press of Florida, 1983), though out of print, can be ordered from Ms. Haskins but Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful (State Street Press, 1990)  is in fact out of print.   Besides poetry, Ms. Haskins has published environmental writing, intoducing a book of photographs, Visions of Florida, and interpreting the Florida environment in Wild Heart of Florida.   She has also recently completed Wind, the Grass, and Us, a collection of personal essays, beginning in Florida's state parks, and is working on a book spotlighting interesting Florida cemeteries to be published by the University Press of Florida. Other projects include a new collections of poems and a play based on Castings.  Ms. Haskins very much enjoys collaborating with artists from other disciplines.  Coming up in March will be a performance with dance and cello at the Hippodrome State Theater.  Favorite past experiences include writing and performing monologues with trumpet and dance 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, pairing her fables with Maggie Taylor's haunting images, and having her work interpreted by painter Ruth Harley, printmaker Ken Kerslake, and photographer Diane Farris in an exhibit of art inspired by the written word.  She also particularly enjoys radio and does as much of that as she can on her local NPR station, WUFT-FM, Classic 89.     .