Poets & Pies at The Detroit Public Library-Main with Stephen Haven, Joy Gaines Friedler & Rosa Lane
Schedule
Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Detroit Public Library | Detroit, MI
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November's Poets & PiesHosted by M. L. Liebler
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Stephen Haven (Boston)
Stephen Haven’s fourth book of poems, The Flight from Meaning (Slant Books, 2025), was a finalist for the International Beverly Prize for Literature. His earlier, The Last Sacred Place in North America, won the New American Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Salmagundi, Arts & Letters, North American Review, and elsewhere. Founder of the MFA Program at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, he served as director there 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. Website: stephenhaven.com
Joy Gaines Friedler (Detroit)
After receiving an internationally recognized CRLA (College Reading and Learning Association) certification, Joy worked in a Developmental or Academic Literacy classroom at Oakland Community College for ten years. She has earned an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts, a Bachelor Degree in English, and completed the courses for an MA in English Literature with an emphasis on The American Renaissance from Oakland University. Joy also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland University, Ohio.Joy has taught as a visiting writer at Wayne State University, Michigan State, Frostburg State University, and at the Lapeer Correctional Facility for the Prison Creative Writing Project (PCAP) through the University of Michigan where she worked with male “lifers.” She teaches, or has taught, for non-profits in the Detroit area, including Springfed Arts and the renowned InsideOut Literary Arts Project that serves Detroit public school kids. One of her greatest pleasures is teaching private workshops in poetry and memoir with adult students, many of whom have been taking her workshops for years. A multiple Pushcart Nominee, Joy’s work has won numerous awards and is published in over 100 literary magazines and journals including Poetica, Ekphrasis, Poetry East, The Kentucky Review, RATTLE, The Patterson Review, and others. Her work is also included in the stunning anthology, Michigan in Poetry in Michigan, and, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Jewish American Poetry. https://www.joygainesfriedler.com/bio
Rosa Lane (Maine)
Rosa Lane is 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. Lane’s poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Five Points, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. Website: www.rosalane.com
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