Poetry Readings: Mark Irwin, Stephen Haven, Rosa Lane

2024 Juniper Prize Winning Poet Mark Irwin, Rosa Lane, and Stephen Haven: Joint Reading and Book Talk
Monday, September 29| 7 – 8 PM
Community Meeting Room, Main Library, 40 Washington St. Quincy, MA

Fall is finally here and it’s time to get COZY. Join us this Monday, September 29 from 7 – 8 PM at the Main Library for a night of stories and poems read by nationally recognized writers, Rosa Lane, Stephen Haven, and 2024 Juniper Prize Winning poet Mark Irwin.

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. Learn more at www.rosalane.com

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. Learn more at www.stephenhaven.com

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). Learn more at www.markirwinauthor.com

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