Colorado poet

MAUREEN OWEN

reads from her book
EDGES of WATER

and New York poet

BARBARA HENNING

reads from her book
A DAY LIKE TODAY

Friday, February 22, 7PM, 2019

Maureen Owen, former editor and chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Book, is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Edges of Water from Chax Press. Her title Erosion’s Pull from 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. She has most recently published work in Dispatches, Positive Magnets #5, Resist much/Obey Little, The Denver Quarterly, Vanitas, New American Writing, and Bombay Gin.  Her awards 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 on-line zine not enough night.

Barbara Henning is the author of four novels, seven collections of poetry, four chapbooks and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Lewis Warsh published her first book of poems with United Artists, Smoking in the Twilight Bar.  Subsequent poetry collections include A Day Like Today, A Swift Passage, Cities and Memory, My Autobiography, Detective Sentences, Love Makes Thinking Dark. Her novels include Just Like That, Thirty Miles to Rosebud, You Me and the Insects, and Black Lace. Between 2003 and 2014, she published limited editions of a series of artist pamphlets (16), combining photography and poetry.  Poems from her current poetic project Digigrams have been published in several journals, including Dispatches, Talisman, The Brooklyn Rail, Journal of Poetics Research, Posit and Recluse. Henning is the editor of a book of interviews, Looking Up Harryette Mullen, and The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins.  She was also the editor of the poetry/art journal, Long News: In the Short Century (1990-1995). As a long-time yoga practitioner, having lived and studied in Mysore, India with Shankaranarayana Jois, she brings this knowledge and discipline to her writing and her teaching at Naropa University (2006-14), University of Arizona (2006-2009), and Long Island University in Brooklyn, where she is Professor Emerita.