An Evening with Lola Haskins

Join us in Coral Gables for an evening with poet and naturalist Lola Haskins as she discusses Like Zeros, Like Pearls—a curious, heartfelt, and deeply researched journey into the hidden worlds of insects and the ecosystems that surround us. Sparked by a moment of wonder outside her own front door, Haskins spent years interviewing entomologists and studying the science to create a book that is lyrical, political, and meticulously accurate. Come explore the beauty and mystery of the natural world in conversation. 🎟 Free & open to the public — RSVP recommended. ABOUT THE BOOK: One day, Lola Haskins stepped out of her house and was so struck by the fact that she knew almost nothing about what was happening 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 heartful, informative, and sometimes political result of that exploration. And since everything in the book has been vetted at least twice by entomologists, readers can be sure that no matter how wild an account may sound, it’s scientifically accurate. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Like Zeros, Like Pearls (Charlotte Lit Press, 2025) is Lola Haskins’ 16th book of poetry. The collection prior to that, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press, 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review and the one before that, Asylum (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), was featured in the NY Times. Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two narrative poetry prizes, a Florida's Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson prize from Poetry Society of America. She has served as Honorary Chancellor for FSPA since 2016.