Maureen Owen
Maureen Owen (born in Graceville, Minnesota ) is an American poet, editor, and biographer.
Life
She grew up training horses and traveling the Racing Fair Circuit with her family who spent their winters in California. She attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University before moving to Japan in 1965 and then to New York and Connecticut. She 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. She lives in Denver and teaches at Naropa University.[1]
Her papers are held at University of California, San Diego.[2][3]
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.
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- Untapped Maps (1993)
- American rush: selected poems. Talisman House. 1998. ISBN 9781883689698.
- Erosion’s Pull. Coffee House Press. 2006. ISBN 9781566891844.
Anthologies
- The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. 1994. ISBN 9780671899486.
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Biography
- AE (Amelia Earhart). Small Press Distribution. September 1984. ISBN 9789994179909.