Poet Scott Owens Introducing New Book and Will Lead Poetry Workshop Aug. 15 and 16

Award winning poet Scott Owens will lead two events in Hayesville, NC, and Hiawassee, GA, Friday, Aug. 15, and Saturday, Aug. 16.

        Owens will be at the Corner Coffee and Wine Shop, 66 Church St., Hayesville, NC, on Friday, Aug. 15, at 4 p.m. to present his latest poetry collection Elemental.  The presentation at the Corner Coffee and Wine Shop in Hayesville is free and open to the public. 

        On Saturday, Aug. 16, he will lead a poetry workshop on How Poems Get Written, at 10 a.m. at 355 N. Main St., Suite C, Hiawassee, GA.  The workshop is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West and requires registration and payment of a $40 fee.  Checks should be made out to North Carolina Writers’ Network.  The size of the class is limited, so registering early is recommended.

For registration information, email Glenda Beall at gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com.  For an address to mail checks to, email Sandy Benson at sandybenson28909@gmail.com.

        Owens is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir Rhyne University, and former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review and has authored 24 books of poetry.  His most recent, Elemental, is a collection of poems about nature. He is recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards. His articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet’s Market four times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate.

 What People are Saying About Elemental:

In Elemental, Scott Owens has crafted poems of praise and witness that… where “everyone remembers/what it means to live.”  Pat Riviere-Seel, author of Because I Did Not Drown

[T]he elemental poetry of Scott Owens… shares with us his essentials, those things in life possible to trust and to love.  Bill Griffin, naturalist at Verse & Image

Scott Owens delves deep into the simple but precious things we take for granted and opens our eyes, to see what he sees, what he hears, and feels, to bring into consciousness those elemental parts of life.  Glenda Beall, author of Now Might As Well Be Then