Ms. Haskins' ninth book of poems Still, the Mountain, has just been published by Paper Kite Press. A tenth, The Grace to Leave, is due in 2011 from Anhinga Press. 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), are out of print but can be ordered from this web site. Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful (State Street,1990) is in fact out of print.
Ms. Haskins' prose writings include Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed (University Press of Florida,scheduled for Spring, 1911, an advice book for people interested in poetry, Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters, 2007) and Solutions Beginning with A, fables about women,illustrated by Maggie Taylor (Modernbook, 2007).
The past ten or fifteen years have seen ventures into the natural world. A first effort, an essay intoducing a book of photographs, Visions of Florida was followed by an essay in Wild Heart of Florida, (proceeds to Nature Conservancy), both from the University Press of Florida. Her poem "Prayer for the Everglades" ends the otherwise prose Book of the Everglades (Milkweed). Ms. Haskins' most ambitious venture in this area is an as-yet unpublished book of personal essays beginning in state parks, called Wind, the Grass, and Us . She is currently working on nature poetry growing out of the time she spends in kayaks and in the woods.
Ms. Haskins relishes collaboration. Her most recent theater piece was Swan Song at the Hippodrome State Theater in Gainesville, with seven dancers, an actor, and a violinist. Favorite past ventures include a 2008 performance with dance and cello called Of Air and the Water, also at the Hipp, and two collaborations with Dance Alive at the Performing Arts Center on the UF Campus: the first playing the speaking Mata Hari in a part she wrote for a ballet of that title, the second being a similar exercise for modern dance, inspired by four Cindy Sherman photographs.
She has worked with visual artists such as collagist Derek Gores, photographer Diane Farris, painter Ruth Harley, and printmaker Kenneth Kerslake. Brevard Art Museum published Transformations in April 2010, documenting the Gores-Haskins collaboration as well as the collaborations of eleven other paired writers and artists.
Favorite experiences with musicians include performing Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano, with composer James Paul Sain and pianist Kevin Sharpe, performing Scattered Voices with Dr. Sain at two composers' conventions, and collaborating with composer Paul Richards on a song cycle based on Forty-Four Ambitions.
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Ms. Haskins is a great fan of radio and until 2009 when her local NPR station, WUFT-FM was re-formatted, she was lucky enough to be on the air with some regularity.
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