The North American Review presents a reading and author talk with poets Stephen Haven and Rosa Lane on Monday, October 20, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. in Bartlett 1017. Book sales and signing to follow.
Stephen Haven’s fourth book of poems, The Flight from Meaning (Slant Books, 2025), was a finalist for the International Beverly Prize for Literature. His earlier, The Last Sacred Place in North America, won the New American Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Arts & Letters, North American Review, and elsewhere. Founder of the MFA Program at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, he served as director there for ten years. He later directed the Lesley University MFA Program. He has received grants and residencies from the Fulbright Foundation, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Ohio Arts Council, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Website: stephenhaven.com
Rosa Lane is author of four poetry collections including Called Back (Tupelo Press, 2024), in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson and winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Book Award; Chouteau's Chalk, winner, Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2019); Tiller North, winner, National Indie Excellence Award (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016]; and Roots and Reckonings, chapbook. Her work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize and won the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize. Lane’s poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Five Points, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Website: www.rosalane.com
You may also like the following events from North American Review:
- Next month, 3rd October, 11:00 am, Remembering the North American Review, the Student Newspaper, and Other Zines and Magazines at UNI in Cedar Falls
- Next month, 9th October, 06:30 pm, Frances Cannon: Poetry Reading and Visiting Author Talk in Cedar Falls
- Next month, 10th October, 11:00 am, Comics Workshop: Writing and Drawing Queer Ecologies with Frances Cannon in Cedar Falls
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