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Rosa Lane and Camille Norton

20 NOVEMBER 2025 — thursday

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rosa Lane, Called Back, 2025 Maine Literary Book Award-winner, and Camille Norton, A Folio for the Dark, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).

Thank you for continuing to support Poetry Flash and our reading series. Rosa Lane's featured book will be available at the event and at bookshop.org/shop/poetryflash. Camille Norton's book is available at shop.sixteenrivers.org/products/a-folio-for-the-dark-by-camille-norton. This event will be posted on the Poetry Flash YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UClwdR-uPFNz7XxbBbLcnoEA.

MORE ABOUT THE READERS
Rosa Lane's new collection is Called Back, winner of the 2025 Maine Literary Book Award, a sequence of poems in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson. Henri Cole says, "What marvelous, feral, eccentric, sweetly erotic poems! Like a candle in a frosted window, they illuminate—with electrifying language—the shadows of human love." Her previous books include Chouteau's Chalk, Georgia Poetry Prize-winner; Tiller North, 2017 National Indie Excellence Award-winner; and Roots and Reckonings (chapbook). Her work was named Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize, awarded the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Prize, and selected as finalist for the 2023 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition (Cork, Ireland). Lane's poems have appeared in Cloudbank, Cutthroat, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
Camille Norton's second collection of poems is A Folio for the Dark. Julia Levine says, "Camille Norton creates a deep and lush interior world where she is both reader and writer, young girl and sensual adult, herself and other. In these poems, which are as mysterious, brutal, and beautiful as truth, Norton writes her way into the lives of those she has read: Poe, Thomas Jefferson, Gertrude Stein, a Confederate prisoner, Herman Melville's whale, and the Old Testament's Jonah. Out of this empathic imagination, there emerges an alchemical voice of the multiple worlds that inhabit Norton's dynamic mind." Her first book, Corruption, was a 2004 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared in Field, Plume, The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, The American Poet, and The Best American Poetry. She is a frequent collaborator with visual artists and composers. She is a newly minted Professor Emerita at University of the Pacific.

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