Like Zeros, Like Pearls: Poems, by Lola Haskins

Lola Haskins

Released May 6, 2025 by Charlotte Lit Press!

Like Zeros, Like Pearls

Fifteen years ago, Lola Haskins stepped out of her house and was so struck by the fact that she knew almost nothing about the multitudes living in the air around her and in the earth under her feet that she spent the next many years interviewing entomologists and reading every secondary source she could get her hands on. Like Zeros, Like Pearls is the glorious result of that exploration.

The poetry in Zeros exhibits all the sharpness of eye and soulful sensitivity that have marked her fifteen previous collections. Within it, you’ll find a wide range of insects, bees to beetles, mantises to ants, ladybugs to cicadas and fireflies to butterflies, to name a few, each story with its own heart-felt exploration. Furthermore, since everything in the book has been vetted by entomologists,  readers can be certain that no matter how wild an account may sound, it’s scientifically accurate.

Among Haskins’ many honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two NEA fellowships, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America.  W.S. Merwin said of her poetry that she “writes with the freedom and grace of a kite flying.”

Besides 14 books of poetry, Haskins has published three of prose, including Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed (University Press of Florida), Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life (University of Nebraska Press), and Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook), a collection of fables about women illustrated by Maggie Taylor.

Title: Like Zeros, Like Pearls
Author: Lola Haskins
Format: Paperback, 6″ x 9″
ISBN: 978-1-960558-10-7
Publication Date: May 6, 2025
Publisher: Charlotte Lit Press

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Excerpts

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Press & Reviews for Like Zeros, Like Pearls

Local award-winning poet gives reading at Gainesville festival, by Hannah Getman, wuft.org, April 14, 2025

Praise for Homelight

Review of Homelight by Lola Haskins, by George Looney, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, September 2024

Homelight named 2023 Poetry Book of the Year, Southern Literary Review, December 27, 2023

December Read of the Month: Homelight by Lola Haskins, by Claire Matturro, Southern Literary Review, December 6, 2023

Lola Haskins’ Homelight, Reviewed by Lee Rossi, Pedestal Magazine Issue 93, November 2023

M•I•A Magazine: 2023 Miami Book Fair Issue: Homelight anthology captures rhythm & blues of life, love, self-reflection,” by JaDa Ingleton. Read (page 14)

Glynn Young (Amazon.com Vine Voice): “…each poem is individually striking; you can’t select a favorite.” Read the whole review

Upcoming Appearances

April 2025

27: St. Petersburg, FL, The Kerouac House


November 2025

1: Deland, FL