Called Back, A Poetry Reading in Queer Conversation with Emily Dickinson by Rosa Lane In-Person
Rosa Lane will be reading from her latest poetry collection Called Back, a title memorializing the last two words Dickinson wrote. Called Back may be considered a "docudrama" of sorts in poetic form and is based on most recent research by scholars bringing the LGBTQ significance of Dickinson to light.
- Date:
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Author Talks Poetry
Called Back is praised by poet Adrian Blevins as a "radical homage [to Dickinson]...that gives back the 'Feral / utterances' Lane suggests her circumstances and time in history forbade her."
Rosa Lane, poet and architect, was raised in coastal Maine as the daughter of a lobsterman. She is the author of four poetry collections including Called Back (Tupelo Press, 2024), Chouteau's Chalk (U. of Georgia Press, 2019, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize); Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016, winner of the 2017 National Indie Excellence Book Award); and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook, (published by Granite Press East with a grant from Maine Arts Commission). Lane's most recent work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize, winner of the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, and selected finalist for the 2023 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize (Cork, Ireland) among other awards. Her work has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Five Points, Nimrod, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She lives in South Portland with her wife. Website: www.rosalane.com
