Printable view of Frank LaRue Owen

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

US

Email:

hiddenmountainstudio@gmail.com

Bio:

Frank LaRue Owen's poetry over the years has been a blend of styles ranging from free verse and haiku to dream-poems and haibun (prose with poetry). His first three books of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, The Temple of Warm Harmony, and Stirrup of the Sun & Moon, were all published by Homebound Publications.

In the Spring of 2017, The School of Soft-Attention was selected as the winner of the 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize, and garnered a Silver Nautilus Book Award in 2018.

Also in 2018, one of the poems from The School of Soft-Attention, "The Bouquet of the Last Direction", was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Frank’s second book of poetry, The Temple of Warm Harmony, released in August 2019, was nominated in 2020 for a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award.

The last book in the series with Homebound, Stirrup of the Sun & Moon, was released in April 2020.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Otagaki Rengetsu, Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Ryokan, Santoka Taneda, Chiyo-Ni, Ikkyu, William Scott Wilson, Red Pine (Bill Porter), David Hinton, D.T. Suzuki, Mary Oliver, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Jim Harrison, Joy Harjo, Chris La Tray, W.S. Merwin, Bai Juyi

Born in:

Biloxi, MS

Mississippi

Raised in:

Atlanta, GA

Georgia

Website:

http://www.hiddenmountain.studio [2]

Prizes won:

2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

2018 Silver Nautilus Book Award

2020 Nominated for a Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award

What I'm reading now:

The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda by Sumita Oyama

Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path by Dennis Hirota

Prefers to work with:

Naturalists/Environmentalists