{"product_id":"the-beekeeper-and-other-love-poems","title":"The Beekeeper and Other Love Poems","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHundreds of verses into her career as a writer for Hallmark Cards, \u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Loots\u003c\/strong\u003e remained essentially anonymous. However, her optimistic view of life surely touched thousands of lives with a broad swath of social communications, from birthdays to holidays to care of the grieving. She is the author of a number of children’s books published by Hallmark. She retired after forty-one years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeanwhile, her work as a poet has been appearing in print since the 1960s in magazines such as \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lyric, Blue Unicorn, New Letters, Measure, Cricket, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Christian Century. \u003c\/em\u003eAnthologies include\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, The Helicon Nine Reader, The Muse Strikes Back, The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, Landscapes With Women, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove Affairs at the Villa Nelle\u003c\/em\u003e. Online, her poems appear in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetter Than Starbucks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMezzo Cammin,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEkphrastic Review,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLight Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2014, her collection \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoad Trip\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Kelsay Books\/White Violet Press. Her second collection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWindshift\u003c\/em\u003e, also published by Kelsay Books, received third place for the 2019 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence. Individual poems have won recognition in various literary magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe resides in Kansas City, Missouri, where she volunteers as a Docent for the renowned Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and worships with the Presbyterians at Second Church. She is married to Bill Dickinson and obeys orders from Bob the Cat. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 79 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (September 12, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #050505;\"\u003eReview:\u003cbr\u003eLight Poetry Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50210858041601,"sku":"oqs1787304549787","price":9.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/1979\/5201\/files\/the-beekeeper-and-other-love-poems_1.jpg?v=1787304556","url":"https:\/\/www.juniperavenue.shop\/products\/the-beekeeper-and-other-love-poems","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}