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Contemporary American Poetry

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Feb.02.2013

Poetry Lincolnton

Poetry Reading featuring Scott Owens, Shane Manier, Morgan Zimmerman, Devona Wyant, and Open Mic.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.23.2012

For One Who Knows How to Own Land

I grew up in two worlds: my father’s parents’ world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother’s parents’ world of dirt roads, livestock, growing our own food, and endless woods. That second world was undeniably harder than the first. The work was dirtier, and there was more of it. The homes had fewer luxuries: no cable, no AC, never more than one...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.02.2011

Something Knows the Moment

“Why ask where none can answer?” Scott Owens’ collection, Something Knows the Moment, poses this question and accompanies it with a hundred others about the nature of God, the nature of faith, of doubt, of trust and distrust, disillusion and resignation. The answer is, We ask because we cannot help but ask. --These poems are necessary. ---- Fred Chappell, NC Poet Laureate...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.26.2010

The Nature of Attraction

A collaborative series of poems written by Pris Campbell and Scott Owens featuring the characters Sara and Norman and comprising a narrative sequence about the difficult relationship of these two.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.15.2010

Paternity

Poems of aching tenderness. PATERNITY explores with a discerning, clear-eyed sensitivity the daily small delights, frustrations, and purely unexpected miracles that, taken together, make up the building blocks of one father's personal salvation. --Joanna Catherine Scott, author of Night Huntress and Fainting at the Uffizi In Scott...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.25.2008

The Fractured World

Nothing prepared me for the immediacy and yet intimacy of the poems in Fractured World. Nor the intensely painful revelations about our woundedness and vulnerability, not to mention our despair at being turned into empty vessels by the "game" of a world divided into sides always at war with each other. As "Taking the Field declares, "And this is the way/you...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.30.1993

The Persistence of Faith

The Persistence of Faith is a fresh strong rethinking, reknowing, of our religious truths. Scott Owens' love for these materials is fierce and true, and out of it he brings poems fierce and true. Here is one to read joyfully and admire plentifully. Fred Chappell, Poet Laureate of North Carolina If, as Paul Eluard suggested, "there is another world but it exists in...

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Aug.13.2012 - 2:12 pm

How Poems Get Written

HOW POEMS GET WRITTEN There is not a single answer to that premise. There is not a single answer to anything regarding poetry. Nevertheless, for myself, there is what might...

May.19.2011 - 7:14 am

Poem for This Saturday's Apocalypse

Poem for This Saturday's ApocalypseMay 18, 2011by Scott Owens Put your things in order.Say your last farewells.Make contrition, complete penance.Say your prayers. Wait. The signs...

May.12.2011 - 6:17 pm

New Online Nonfiction Journal

I have started a new online journal dedicated to nonfiction. It's called "234" and housed at www.234journal.com. My partners in crime for this endeavor are Tim Peeler...

May.12.2011 - 1:02 pm

Review of Sara Claytor's "Memory Bones"

REVIEW by Scott Owens MEMORY BONES by Sara Claytor Big Table, 2011, 32 pages, $12 ISBN: 9780984573356 Sara Claytor is simply a joy to read, although her poems are...

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Article: Providential Pairings

Article: 6 Degrees of Collaboration

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Mar.08.2013

For One Who Knows How to Own Land

Published by North Carolina Literary Review

Most of the poems in For One Who Knows How to Own Land convey the pain of people learning to endure the circumstances of their life. However, the collection is a frank look...

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Audio: Henry McCarthy Interviews Scott Owens for "Poets & Writers"

Video: Shape of a Box Reading

Video: May 2009 Poetry Hickory

About Scott

Author of 10 Collections of Poetry, Founder of Poetry Hickory and The Art of Poetry at Hickory Museum of Art, Editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and 234, Vice President of Poetry Council of North Carolina, Vice President of NC Poetry Society, NC Writers'...

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Poetry Hickory Hickory Soup Kitchen Temple Beth Shalom Hickory Women's Resources Center

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The Book of Nightmares, Galway Kinnell

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