Afternoon of Poetry with Scott Owens

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Scott Owens! As our featured guest, Scott will share his work for the first portion of our program. After the featured presentation, we will break for refreshments, book sales, and socializing. We will then resume our program with the open reading. All guests are invited to share!

This event is free and open to the public. (Donations appreciated.)

Learn more about our featured guest:

Scott Owens is the author of 24 collections of poetry, most recently Elemental, a collection of poems about nature, and eventually, a collection of haiku illustrated by Missy Cleveland. Owens is 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 poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac 8 times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet’s Market 4 times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate. Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir
Rhyne University, and 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.

www.scottowenspoetry.com

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