Scott Owens is the author of 16 collections of poetry and recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC.
His newest collection, Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His book of poems for children, Worlds Enough, is due out from RedHawk Press later this year, as is a new collection of poetry entitled Prepositional. His poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac 7 times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet’s Market for several years.
Owens holds degrees
from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is a Professor of Poetry at Lenoir Rhyne
University and the former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry
Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates
Poetry Hickory in Hickory, NC.
As you can see, Scott writes poetry, publishes poetry, and teaches others to write poetry. We are so honored to have him with us for Writers' Night Out.
Contact glendabeall@msn.com to receive the Zoom link and to read at Open Mic.
See you then.
So wishing I could be there! Rock on, all of you.
ReplyDeleteCatherine, you missed a delightful reading. Scott is an excellent guest for a reading. He is open and honest as he is in his poetry. We hope he will come back again when his next TWO books come out later this year.
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