Stephen Haven
Stephen Haven is Director of the Ashland University MFA Program. His books include The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008), The Enemy in Defensive Positions (Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, 2008), and a memoir, The River Lock: One Boy’s Life Along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press). He is the editor of The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass: Everything Human (University of Michigan Press), and co-editor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry.
For more information, see
- 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
Meacham Readings
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- Saturday, October 25, 2008
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