July 22: A Silo Series Reading featuring Rosa Lane & Stephen Haven at the Word Barn
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Date(s) - July 22, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Word Barn
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Celebrate Summer with the Silo Series. Let’s honor the release of these poets’ 4th 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 drinks will be for sale at the bar as well as author books (signed) for sale. There will be fresh-squeezed lemonade and ice cream as well.
Rosa Lane is author of four poetry collections including Called Back (Tupelo Press, 2024), winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Poetry Book Award. 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.” Lane is also author of Chouteau’s Chalk, winner, Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2019); Tiller North, winner, 2017 National Indie Excellence Award (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016); and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook. Her work has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Catamaran, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Website: www.rosalane.com
Stephen’s The Flight from Meaning (his 4th poetry collection and finalist for the International Beverly Prize for Literature) “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.” Stephen, professor emeritus, directed the MFA Writing Programs at both Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and then at Lesley University in Cambridge. Stephen and I have known each other for decades and are award winners in national and international prize programs. Website: www.stephenhaven.com