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   from the issue of March 10, 2005

     
 
Poet Haskins reading March 24

Poet Lola Haskins will read from her new book, Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems, at 7 p.m. March 24, in the Dudley Bailey Library (Room 229), Andrews Hall.

Haskins has been published in many journals and periodicals including: Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ploughshares, and the Abiko International Literary Quarterly (Japan). Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies. She has read her poetry on NPR and on BBC Radio in England.

Her awards include National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, in 1984 and 2003, The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award and from the Poetry Society of America, and the Madeline Sadin Award from the New York Quarterly. Haskins graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stanford University and has has chaired the Creative Arts Committee for Phi Beta Kappa. She teaches computer science at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is also a musician and dancer.

More information about Lola Haskins is available on her website, www.lolahaskins.com.

The reading, which is sponsored by the UNL English Department, Creative Writing Program, Women's Studies, and the Faculty Convocations Committee, is free and open to the public. For more information call Grace Bauer at 472-0993.


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ARTS HEADLINES FOR MARCH 10

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