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Aug.13.2012
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 be called a pattern that the construction of a poem often follows.
Often, what later becomes a poem begins with a...
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May.19.2011
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 are unmistakable:earthquakes, Japanese tsunamis,Mississippi floods, tornadoesin the mountains of Tennessee.
The world...
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May.12.2011
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 and Jerry Sain.
We posted our first essay, "Dealing with Death" by Charles Aguilar, on May 5. We followed...
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May.12.2011
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 neither simple nor naively always joyful. Rather, Claytor’s work consistently demonstrates that she knows what makes...
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Nov.08.2010
Scott Owens Bibliography
Books
Owens, Scott. The Persistence of Faith. Charlotte: Sandstone, 1994.
Owens, Scott. Deceptively Like a Sound. Winston-Salem: Dead Mule, 2008. http://www.deadmule.com/poetry/2008/04/scott-owens-deceptively-like-a-sound-a-chapbook/
Owens, Scott. The...
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Oct.26.2009
How Does Poetry Work?
Reprinted from “Musings,” Outlook, October 8, 2009
Any attempt at answering that question is doomed to be inadequate for the simple fact that what we call poetry varies greatly and works in an incomprehensible range of ways. Nevertheless, as Robert Frost said, “...
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Oct.26.2009
Why Poetry?
Reprinted from “Musings,” Outlook, August 20, 2009
It’s a question that every poet who has ever been interviewed has been asked and a question that I ask my own writing students every semester. But it may really be two questions. The reasons, after all, for reading...
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Oct.26.2009
Top 10 Reasons to Go to a Poetry Reading
Reprinted from “Musings,” Outlook, November 13, 2008
In this age of universal literacy, poetry readings might seem a strange concept. Why would one give up an evening of watching The Biggest Loser or Dancing with the Stars to listen to...
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Oct.26.2009
HOW TO READ A POEM
Reprinted from "Musings,"Outlook, August 27, 2009
This one comes in direct response to a reader who wrote to me that he doesn’t read much poetry because it never makes any sense to him. This is not the first time I’ve heard this complaint about poetry...
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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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Causes Scott Owens Supports
Poetry Hickory Hickory Soup Kitchen Temple Beth Shalom Hickory Women's Resources Center
Scott’s Favorite Books
The Book of Nightmares, Galway Kinnell