Maureen Owen

Maureen Owen (born July 6, 1943 in Graceville, Minnesota ) is an American poet, editor, and biographer.^[1]

Life

Owen trained horses in her youth and traveled in the Racing Fair Circuit along with her family. They lived in California during winters. Owen attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University. In 1965, she moved to Japan, and then to New York. Owen was co-director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project (1976–1980) in New York City. She is the editor and publisher of Telephone Books. Owen is currently living in Denver and is a teacher at the Naropa University.^[2]

Her papers are held at University of California, San Diego.^[3][4]

Awards

• 1985 American Book Award, for AE
• Colorado Book Award and Balcones Poetry Prize finalist, for Erosion's Pull
• 1979-1980 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grant
• 1998 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts
• 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Festival Prize

Works

Poetry

• Country Rush Adventures in Poetry (1973)
• No Travels Journal Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions (1975)
• "A Brass Choir Approaches the Burial Ground" in BIG DEAL 5 (1977)
• Hearts in Space New York: Kulchur Press, (1980)
• Zombie notes: poems. SUN. 1985. ISBN 9780915342488. 
• Imaginary Income (1992)
• Untapped Maps (1993)
• American rush: selected poems. Talisman House. 1998. ISBN 9781883689698. 
• Erosion’s Pull. Coffee House Press. 2006. ISBN 9781566891844. http://books.google.com/books?id=6R0nbgaiaRAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Maureen+Owen+poet&ei=0GvmSqnMD4WyNqTB3c4L#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Anthologies

• A. R. Ammons, David Lehman, ed (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671899486. 
• Kenneth Koch, Kate Farrell, ed (1985). Talking to the sun: an illustrated anthology of poems for young people. Macmillan. ISBN 9780870994364. http://books.google.com/books?id=f06ctjoh56gC&pg=PA94&dq=Maureen+Owen+poet&ei=0GvmSqnMD4WyNqTB3c4L#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Biography

• AE (Amelia Earhart). Small Press Distribution. September 1984. ISBN 9789994179909. 

References

1. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia, Dennis McIntire
2. ^ http://www.unco.edu/colopoets/poets/owen_maureen/index.html
3. ^ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0567a.html
4. ^ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/dr/kt8w1023dr/files/kt8w1023dr.pdf

External links

• "Notes on Publishing", Jacket 11, February 1999

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