Community Meeting Room, Main Library40 Washington Street, Quincy, MA, 02169
Join us for a night of stories & poems read by nationally recognized writers!
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.
Mark Irwin is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, most recently the 2024 Juniper Prize winning collection, Once When Green (University of Massachusetts Press, 2025). For 20+ years he has been Professor of English in the Creative Writing and Literature Ph.D. program at the University of Southern California. Earlier poetry collections include Joyful Orphan (2023), Shimmer (2020), American Urn: Selected Poems (1987-2014), and Large White House Speaking (2013). His poetry and essays have appeared in many literary magazines including The American Poetry Review, Agni Review, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Pleiades, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, New American Writing, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Southern Review, and Tin House. Website www.markirwinauthor.com
Rosa Lane is the 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
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