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Poets Stephen Haven and Rosa Lane will read at Mac's on Saturday, November 8th at 5 pm.Rosa and Stephen are life-long poetry siblings, first meeting each other at a Cambridge, MA poetry workshop in 1979. They are celebrating their friendship and each other's new collections by reading together in many parts of the country.
Rosa Lane, PhD, MFA, AIA, is author of four poetry collections: Called Back selected by Tupelo Press from the 2022 Summer Open Reading Period, released September 2024; Chouteau's Chalk, winner of the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2019); Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016), winner of a 2017 National Indie Excellence Award and 2017 Maine Literary Award for Short Works for a 5-poem excerpt; and a chapbook, Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press, East). Lane earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied with Jean Valentine, Jane Cooper, Grace Paley, and Tom Lux.
Her recent poems are forthcoming or have appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Chattahoochee Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cutthroat, Massachusetts Review, Five Points, New South, Nimrod, Ploughshares, RHINO Poetry, River Heron Review, Salt Hill Journal, Southampton Review, Slippery Elm, Sugar House, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.
She is a native of a fishing village in coastal Maine
Stephen Haven’s The Flight from Meaning (Slant Books, 2025) was a finalist (in earlier form) for the International Beverly Prize for Literature. He has three earlier poetry collections, The Last Sacred Place in North America, selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the New American Poetry Prize, Dust and Bread, winner of the Ohio Poet of the Year award, and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks, runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry in a year Levine served as judge. Together with Wang Shouyi, Li Yongyi, and Jin Zhong, in 2021 he published the 300-page, dual language (Mandarin and English) anthology of collaborative translations, Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields: Poems from Contemporary China. His memoir, The River Lock: One Boy’s Life Along the Mohawk, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2008.
He is the founding director of the low-residency MFA Program at Ashland University, in Ashland, Ohio, where he served as director for ten years. He later directed the low-residency MFA Program at Lesley University. For many years he taught American literature at both Ashland University and Lesley University. He also served as editor or director of the Ashland Poetry Press for more than twenty years.
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