Discipline: Literature – poetry

Stephen Haven

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: MASSACHUSETTS
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986, 1988, 1990
More: www.stephenhaven.com
Stephen Haven has published three books of poems, Last Sacred Place in North America (New American Press, 2012), Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008), and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and one memoir, The River Lock: One Boy’s Life Along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Last Sacred Place in North America was selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the 2010 New American Press Poetry Prize. For Dust and Bread, he was named 2009 Co-Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. 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.

Studios

Watson

Stephen Haven worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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