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"The genius of Owens' work lies not in ideological commitments but in her access to the subconscious. One of our most courageous and insightful artists...and perhaps the most profound tragic playwright in the American theater."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/owens.htm|title=Plays by Rochelle Owens|accessdate=25 February 2010}}</ref>
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Mathias Svalina has said of her:
{{quote|She’s a poet I had never heard of, but one whom I recognized the moment I read a poem of hers. She is the 60s feminist-lesbian radical poet with a wild sense of humor that I didn’t know I wanted in my life. But I do & I’m glad she’s here with me now.<ref>{{cite book| url=http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue11/svalina.htm| work=Octopus Magazine| issue=11| author=Mathias Svalina }}</ref>}}


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Rochelle Owens (born April 2, 1936 Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and playwright.

Life

She is the daughter of Maxwell and Molly (Adler) Bass. She graduated from the New School for Social Research (now The New School) and University of Montreal. She married David Owen on March 31, 1956. She married poet George Economou on June 17, 1962.[1] She has taught at Brown University, the University of California-San Diego, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). [2]

Her work appeared in Simbolica, Yugen, Plumed Horn, Nomad, Midwest, Floating World, Element.

She lives in New York City.[3]

Awards

  • 1965, 1967, 1982 Village Voice Obie Awards
  • honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle.
  • 1971 Guggenheim Fellowship[4]
  • The New York Creative Artists in Public Service Program
  • 1976 The National Endowment for the Arts
  • 1965 The Rockefeller Foundation grant

Works

Plays

  • The String Game, Judson Poet's Theatre, New York City, 1965, published by Methuen, 1969.
  • Futz. Hawk's Well Press. 2003. Tyrone Guthrie Workshop Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1965, then Cafe La Mama Theatre, New York City, 1966, published by Hawk's Well Press, 1962, and Methuen, 1969.
  • Istanboul. Hawk's Well Press. 1968. Judson Poet's Theatre, 1968, then Actors Playhouse, New York City, 1971
  • Homo, Cafe La Mama Theatre, 1966, later Ambiance Theater, London, 1966, published by Hawk's Well Press, 1968.
  • Beclch, Theatre for the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA, then Gate Theatre,New York City, 1968, published by Hawk's Well Press, 1968.
  • Futz and What Came After. Random House. 1968. produced in New York City, 1968
  • The Karl Marx Play. Dutton. 1974. American Place Theatre, New York City, 1973
  • He Wants Shih, produced in New York City, 1971, published by Dutton, 1974.
  • Emma Instigated Me, produced in New York City, 1976, published in Performance Arts Journal, 1976.
  • The Widow and Me Colonel. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 1977. ISBN 9780822212522. produced in New York City, 1977, published in Best Short Plays, 1977.
  • Who Do You Want, Piere Vidal?, Theatre for the New City, New York City, 1982.
  • Chucky's Hunch, Harold Clurman Theatre, New York City, 1982.
  • Plays by Rochelle Owens: Chucky's Hunch, Futz, Kontraption, Three Front. Broadway Play Publishing. 2000. ISBN 9780881451726.

Screenplays

  • Futz Commonwealth United, 1969.

Poetry

  • Not Be Essence That Cannot Be. Trobar. 1961.
  • Salt and Core. Black Sparrow Press. 1968.
  • I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter: Poems, 1961-71. Kulchur Press. 1972.
  • Poems from Joe's Garage. Wittenborn. 1973.
  • The Joe Eighty-Two Creation Poems, Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
  • The Joe Chronicles II. Black Sparrow Press. 1977. (David R. Godine Publisher, 1979 edition)
  • Shemuel. New Rivers Press. 1979. ISBN 9780898230062.
  • French Light. Press with the Flexible Voice. 1984.
  • Constructs. Poetry Around. 1985.
  • Anthropoligists at a Dinner Party. Chax Press. 1985.
  • ((cite book} title=W.C.Fields In French Light, publisher=Contact 2 Press, date=1986 ))

Anthologies

  • Leroi Jones, ed. (1962). Four Young Lady Poets: Carol Bergé, Barbara Moraff, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski. Totem-Corinth Press.
  • Paris Leary, Robert Kelly, ed. (1965). A Controversy of Poets. Doubleday.
  • Technicians of the Sacred, Doubleday, 1969
  • Inside Outer Space, Anchor Books, 1970.

Radio Plays

  • Sweet Potatoes, 1977.

Reviews

From the Village Voice

"The genius of Owens' work lies not in ideological commitments but in her access to the subconscious. One of our most courageous and insightful artists...and perhaps the most profound tragic playwright in the American theater."[5]

Mathias Svalina has said of her:

She’s a poet I had never heard of, but one whom I recognized the moment I read a poem of hers. She is the 60s feminist-lesbian radical poet with a wild sense of humor that I didn’t know I wanted in my life. But I do & I’m glad she’s here with me now.[6]

References

  1. ^ Taylor & Francis Group. International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. p. 250.
  2. ^ http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/owensb.htm
  3. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/47/Rochelle-Owens.html
  4. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/11075-rochelle-owens
  5. ^ "Plays by Rochelle Owens". Retrieved 25 February 2010.
  6. ^ Mathias Svalina. http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue11/svalina.htm. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
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