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Celebrate Summer with the Silo Series!
Let’s honor the release of both of these poets’ fourth poetry collections!
Come gather around the Meadow stage on a warm July evening to hear their words.
The event is free ($5 suggested donation) and we will have drinks for sale at the bar as well as author books for sale. There will be fresh-squeezed lemonade and ice cream available as well!
The event is free ($5/person suggested donation), but we ask that you register to save yourself a spot.
ABOUT ROSA LANE
Rosa Lane, poet and architect, is author of four poetry collections including Called Back (September 2024, Tupelo Press); Chouteau’s Chalk (2019, winner, UGA Poetry Prize); Tiller North (2016, winner, Sixteen Rivers Press Manuscript Competition); and Roots and Reckonings (chapbook). Lane’s work won the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize among other prizes and has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Catamaran, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, RHINO, River Heron Review, Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She splits her time between her native home in coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her wife.
Called Back, the last two words Emily Dickinson wrote, includes poems written in queer conversation with Dickinson giving voice to the LGBTQ+ significance of one of America's greatest poets and which draws from most recent research by Dickinson scholars. Henri Cole had this to say about Called Back: "What marvelous, feral, eccentric, sweetly erotic poems [that]...illuminate--with electrifying language --the shadows of human love."
ABOUT STEPHEN HAVEN
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. Twice a year-long Fulbright Lecturer at universities in Beijing, Haven has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Djerassi Foundation, as well as five Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council. He was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Lesley University from 2016-2024 and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Ashland University from 1992-2016.
Haven's The Flight from Meaning "contains meditations on American History, on the nature of religion in our time, on racism and its legacy in the post-Civil Rights era." T. R. Hummer in praise of Stephen's work had this to say: "Stephen is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate, humanistic ethos."