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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of poetry and celebration with award-wi
 nning poets Rosa Lane (Called Back\, 2024)\, Stephen Haven (The Flight of 
 Meaning\, 2025)\, and Clayton Adam Clark (Auscultate\, 2025)..\nhttps://be
 xley.libnet.info/event/14324994
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join us for an evening of poetry and celeb
 ration with award-winning poets Rosa Lane\, Stephen Haven\, and Clayton Ad
 am Clark. They will each read poems from their most recent collections --&
 nbsp\;<em>Called Back</em> (Rosa Lane\, 2024)\,&nbsp\;<em>The Flight of Me
 aning</em> (Stephen Haven\, 2025)\, and&nbsp\;<em>Auscultate&nbsp\;</em>(C
 layton Adam Clark\, 2025) -- and discuss their creative processes\, inspir
 ations\, and love of poetry together.</p>\n<p><strong>About the Poets:</st
 rong></p>\n<p><strong>Rosa&nbsp\;Lane</strong>\, poet and architect\, is t
 he author of four poetry collections including&nbsp\;<em>Called Back</em>&
 nbsp\;(Tupelo Press\, 2024)\, winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Book Award
 \, a title memorializing&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;last two words Emily Dickinson wr
 ote--a sequence of poems in queer conversation with Dickinson\;&nbsp\;<em>
 Chouteau's Chalk</em>&nbsp\;(University&nbsp\;of Georgia Press\, 2019\, wi
 nner of the Georgia Poetry Prize)\;&nbsp\;<em>Tiller North</em>&nbsp\;(Six
 teen Rivers Press\, 2016\, winner of the 2017 National Indie Excellence Bo
 ok Award)\; and&nbsp\;<em>Roots and Reckonings</em>\,&nbsp\;a&nbsp\;chapbo
 ok\, (published by Granite Press with a grant from the Maine Arts Commissi
 on). Her most recent work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Pr
 ize\, winner of the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize\, and selecte
 d finalist for the 2023 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize (Cor
 k\, Ireland)\, among other awards.&nbsp\;Lane's poems have appeared in the
 &nbsp\;Asheville Poetry Review\, Cloudbank\, Cutthroat\, Five Points\, Nim
 rod\, Massachusetts Review\, Ploughshares\, RHINO\, River Heron Review\, S
 lippery Elm\,&nbsp\;Southhampton Review\,&nbsp\;Third Coast\,&nbsp\;Verse 
 Daily\,&nbsp\;and elsewhere. Website:&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.rosalane.c
 om/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.rosalane.com</a></p>\n<p><br /><st
 rong>Stephen Haven</strong>&rsquo\;s fourth collection of poems\,&nbsp\;<e
 m>The Flight from Meaning</em>&nbsp\;(Slant Books\, 2025)\,&nbsp\;was a fi
 nalist for England&rsquo\;s International Beverly Prize for Literature. Ha
 ven&rsquo\;s three earlier collections are:&nbsp\;<em>The Last Sacred Plac
 e in North America</em>\,&nbsp\;selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the N
 ew American Poetry Prize\;&nbsp\;<em>Dust and Bread</em>\, winner of the O
 hio Poet of the Year prize\; and&nbsp\;<em>The Long Silence of the Mohawk 
 Carpet Smokestacks</em>\,&nbsp\;runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize in a
  year Levine served as judge.&nbsp\;Haven was the founding director of the
  low-residency MFA Program at Ashland University in Ashland\, Ohio\, where
  he led the program for ten years.&nbsp\;He later directed the Lesley Univ
 ersity MFA Program. He has received grants and residencies from the Fulbri
 ght Foundation\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Djerassi 
 Foundation\, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.&nbsp\;His work ha
 s appeared in&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;American Poetry Review\, Crazyhorse\, Guerni
 ca\, Asheville Poetry Review\, Salmagundi\, Arts &amp\; Letters\, The Miss
 ouri Review\, North American Review\,&nbsp\;and elsewhere.&nbsp\;Website:&
 nbsp\;<a href="https://www.stephenhaven.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopene
 r">stephenhaven.com</a></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><strong>Clayton Adam Clark</stron
 g> lives in St. Louis\, his hometown\, where he works as a mental health c
 ounselor in private practice alongside his spouse\, Tina\, and their thera
 py dog\, Tank. His latest poetry collection\,&nbsp\;<em>Auscultate</em>\, 
 was published by Galileo Press in 2025\, and his debut poetry collection\,
 &nbsp\;<em>A Finitude of Skin</em>\, won the Moon City Poetry Award (Moon 
 City Press\, 2018). He earned an MFA in poetry at Ohio State University an
 d a master's in clinical mental health counseling from the University of M
 issouri&ndash\;St. Louis. Website: <a href="https://claytonadamclark.com/"
  target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.claytonadamclark.com</a></p>\n<p><stro
 ng>If you would like to receive an email reminder about this event\, pleas
 e register. Join us in person\, or live stream this program on&nbsp\;<a hr
 ef="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9fOqzb9ojp4OF70qWtFncw" target="_bla
 nk" rel="noopener">BPL's YouTube channel</a>.</strong></p>\nhttps://bexley
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