Stephen Haven
Stephen Haven has published three books of poems, The Last Sacred Place in North America (selected by T.R. Hummer for the 2010 New American Press Poetry Prize, forthcoming 2012), Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008), and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004). He is also the author of the memoir The River Lock: One Boy's Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008), which was a National Book Award Nominee. Winner of the 2009 Ohio Poet of the Year Award, Haven has also published a chapbook of collaborative translations from contemporary Chinese poetry, The Enemy in Defensive Positions (Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, 2008). He is editor of The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass: Everything Human (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and co-editor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Parnassus, Literary Imagination, Crazyhorse, American Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Northwest Review, Image, Western Humanities Review, and in many other journals. He has been a Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowship winner. Haven is Director of the Ashland University MFA Program and Director of the Ashland Poetry Press.
For more information, see
- His web site
- His faculty page at Ashland University
- A sampling of his poetry at Stephen Haven's faculty page at Ashland University
- Some of his translation work at the Artful Dodge
- A Brief Review of The River Lock in Upstream
- Ashland University MFA in Creative Writing
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