Windshift

Hundreds of verses into her career as a writer for Hallmark Cards, Barbara Loots remained essentially anonymous. However, her optimistic view of life 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, including Fun on the Farm with Numbers, now in the Smithsonian collection of pop-up books. Her work as a poet has been appearing since the 1960s in magazines such as The Lyric, Blue Unicorn, New Letters, Measure, Cricket, and The Christian Century. Anthologies include The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, The Helicon Nine Reader, The Muse Strikes Back, The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, and Landscapes with Women. Online, her poems can be found at Mezzo Cammin and Light Poetry Magazine. Her chapbooks are The Bride’s Mirror Speaks and Sibyl & Sphinx (with Gail White). Her collecti