Maureen Owen's latest title is everything turns on a delicate measure, BlazeVOX Books. Recent  publications include let the heart hold down the breakage  Or  the caregiver's log, Hanging Loose Press and Poets on the Road, a collaborative reading tour blog with Barbara Henning, City Point Press.  She is former editor-in-chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books and the author of thirteen books of poetry. Her title Erosion’s Pull, Coffee House Press, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her collection American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award.  Honors include grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught at Naropa University and served as editor-in-chief of Naropa’s online zine not enough night. She can be found reading her work on the PennSound website.

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