Lori Rosenlof Drake is a former journalist and educator who observes the world and reports her findings through free verse and rhymed poems. In her debut poetry chapbook, Moonshine Shared with a Mishmash of Musings, Drake captures life moments, records history, and prompts laughter. The recipient of several Honorable Mentions in the Writer’s Digest Competition, her work has appeared in The Christian Century, San Diego Woman, Mothers Always Write and Nebraska Alumnus. She resides in Farmville, NC with her husband and they have six grown children and two grandchildren.
PRAISE:
Lori Drake writes with heart, longing and wit about times and people lost, and creates beautiful contrasts with the things that survive: the prairie-rooted evergreen outside her dying mother’s window, a faded ice cream recipe on a refrigerator door, the rhythm of sand cranes rising in migration. A teacher by nature and profession, Drake captures a genuine love of language, family and history in this touching treasury of “heirlooms of the heart.”
—Sheila Turnage, Author, Just Off Half-Moon Road & NY Times Bestseller Three Times Lucky
Lori Rosenlof Drake’s lovely book Moonshine Shared with a Mishmash of Musings ranges from the whimsical to the formal; from nostalgia for a lost past to a humorous acceptance of life as it is. I’ll admit the poems in Part One made me homesick for our shared past on the Nebraska prairie. All those years ago, I knew Lori would be a writer someday. Like all good things, the wait for this book was worth it.
—Ladette Randolph, author of Leaving the Pink House
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