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Author: Owen Lewis

Owen Lewis is the author of three collections of poetry, FIELD LIGHT (Dos Madres Press, 2020), MARRIAGE MAP (Dos Madres Press, 2017), and SOMETIMES FULL OF DAYLIGHT (Dos Madres Press, 2013), and two chapbooks. BEST MAN (Dos Madres Press, 2015) received the 2016 Jean Pendrick Chapbook Prize (The New England Poetry Club). Recent honors include 2018 Runner-up, Wigtown Poetry Competition (Scotland); 2017 Finalist, Pablo Neruda Award; 2016 Winner, International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. His poetry has appeared in Nimrod, The Mississippi Review, Poetry Wales, Southward, The Four Way Review and other journals. He is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City where he teaches in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics.

Best Man
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Best Man

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. "In this powerful sequence of poems, Owen Lewis bravely revisits the death of his younger brother in 1980, trying to make what sense he can of inexplicable loss. He summons his brother by 'taking every memory that [comes] to me like a hand i...

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Field Light
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Field Light

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Winner of a Distinguished Favorite Award in the 2020 New York City Big Book Awards. FIELD LIGHT, written as an extended, multi-sectioned poem that moves in and out of prose, is a personal and historical exploration of th...

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Marriage Map
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Marriage Map

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. "The poems of Owen Lewis's MARRIAGE MAP take their inspiration from Athena's owl that had the ability to enlighten the goddess's dark side. It is the same owl that flies 'beyond the moon' in the poem 'Two Dreams,' the same owl that flies up ...

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Sometimes Full of Daylight
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Sometimes Full of Daylight

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. "Owen Lewis's poems do us the huge favor of restoring a radical and essential strangeness to the so-called 'everyday.' He is a shaman riding upon the storm-split house, the family tree that wanders through Minsk, Brooklyn, and Jersey, the lo...

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