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Poetry Reading

with Rosa Lane, Stephen Haven, and Clayton Adam Clark

2025-11-03 19:00:00 2025-11-03 20:00:00 America/New_York Poetry Reading Join us for an evening of poetry and celebration with poets Rosa Lane (Called Back, 2024), Stephen Haven (The Flight of Meaning, 2025), and Clayton Adam Clark (Auscultate, 2025). Bexley Public Library - Bexley Library Auditorium

Monday, November 03
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-03 19:00:00 2025-11-03 20:00:00 America/New_York Poetry Reading Join us for an evening of poetry and celebration with poets Rosa Lane (Called Back, 2024), Stephen Haven (The Flight of Meaning, 2025), and Clayton Adam Clark (Auscultate, 2025). Bexley Public Library - Bexley Library Auditorium

Bexley Public Library

Bexley Library Auditorium

Join us for an evening of poetry and celebration with poets Rosa Lane (Called Back, 2024), Stephen Haven (The Flight of Meaning, 2025), and Clayton Adam Clark (Auscultate, 2025).

Join us for an evening of poetry and celebration with award-winning poets Rosa Lane, Stephen Haven, and Clayton Adam Clark. They will each read poems from their most recent collections -- Called Back (Rosa Lane, 2024), The Flight of Meaning (Stephen Haven, 2025), and Auscultate (Clayton Adam Clark, 2025) -- and discuss their creative processes, inspirations, and love of poetry together.

About the Poets:

Rosa Lane, poet and architect, is the author of four poetry collections including Called Back (Tupelo Press, 2024), winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Book Award, a title memorializing the last two words Emily Dickinson wrote--a sequence of poems in queer conversation with Dickinson; Chouteau's Chalk (University of Georgia Press, 2019, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize); Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016, winner of the 2017 National Indie Excellence Book Award); and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook, (published by Granite Press with a grant from the Maine Arts Commission). Her most recent work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize, winner of the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, and selected finalist for the 2023 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize (Cork, Ireland), among other awards. Lane's poems have appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Cloudbank, Cutthroat, Five Points, Nimrod, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, RHINO, River Heron Review, Slippery Elm, Southhampton Review, Third Coast, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Website: www.rosalane.com


Stephen Haven’s fourth collection of poems, The Flight from Meaning (Slant Books, 2025), was a finalist for England’s International Beverly Prize for Literature. Haven’s three earlier collections are: 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 prize; and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks, runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize in a year Levine served as judge. 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. 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. His work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Asheville Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Arts & Letters, The Missouri Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. Website: stephenhaven.com

Clayton Adam Clark lives in St. Louis, his hometown, where he works as a mental health counselor in private practice alongside his spouse, Tina, and their therapy dog, Tank. His latest poetry collection, Auscultate, was published by Galileo Press in 2025, and his debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, won the Moon City Poetry Award (Moon City Press, 2018). He earned an MFA in poetry at Ohio State University and a master's in clinical mental health counseling from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Website: www.claytonadamclark.com

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books Reading and Storytelling | Art Music and Culture |

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