The new issue of the e-Muse arrived today with news about readings, contests, and publication opportunities around the state. The highlight, though, is this announcement of the NC Poetry Society’s Fall Meeting. Annual Fall Meeting Saturday, September 21, 2013 Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC Please mark your calendars! An exciting … Read more
Just posted a new column about poetry and the internet based on my part in a panel discussion at the NC Writers Conference this weekend. It’s over on my blog: http://scottowensmusings.blogspot.com/2013/07/poetry-and-internet.html. It should be in the Outlook next week. I’ll add the link to the essays page here as well.
The poetry of Scott Owens traces the contours of loss and hope, possibility and renewal. A heartfelt quality or soulfulness, best defined as the determination to speak honestly and courageously of important personal matters, pervades this book and gives it emotional urgency page after page. Drawn to what he calls “a poetics of excess,” Owens … Read more
My new book of poems, Eye of the Beholder, is now available for pre-order through Main Street Rag’s new online bookstore. Here is a link that will take you to their listing for the book where you can see the cover art (by Valerie MacEwan), read a few poems from the book and place your … Read more
Transcript of Fawn Neun’s Interview for Battered Suitcase, 2010 In order to help promote your work and The Battered Suitcase, we’d like to feature a brief interview with our contributors on our blog to share with readers. If you’d like to participate, please answer the following questions as fully and completely as you’d like and … Read more
