Background
She grew up on her family’s farm and later on California’s horseracing tracks where her parents were horse trainers.
( From the poet’s birthplace in Graceville, Minnesota, to...)
From the poet’s birthplace in Graceville, Minnesota, to California horse tracks, from New York apartments to the Colorado mountains, Owen’s perceptive reports on the business of living resonate with humor, energy, and wisdom. Full of news and gossip, bulletins on science and art, memories of love and loss, these poems are superb collages of the myriad erosions that strengthen and shape our lives.
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She grew up on her family’s farm and later on California’s horseracing tracks where her parents were horse trainers.
Owen attended Seattle University and San Francisco State University.
She traveled in the Racing Fair Circuit along with her family in the summers. They wintered at Santa Anita Racetrack. In 1965, she moved to Japan, and then to New York in 1968.
Owen was co-director of the Saint Mark"s Poetry Project (1976–1980) in New York City.
She has worked as Program Coordinator at the Saint Mark"s Poetry Project in New York and served on the Board of the Poetry Project and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines—both as a member and as a vice-chairperson. She is the editor and publisher of Telephone Books.
Owen began publishing and editing Telephone Books and Telephone magazine, a press and magazine that began in mimeograph format, and has edited thirty titles of the press and nineteen issues of the magazine to date. She has taught a number of creative writing workshops including children and seniors.
Her academic career includes teaching courses in creative writing and research at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1999, as well as mentoring workshops at Swarthmore College and Saint Joseph"s College in Connecticut.
She currently teaches at Naropa University, both on campus and in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program, and is editor-in-chief of Naropa’s on-line zine not enough night. Her title Edges of Water is forthcoming from Chax Press. She can be found reading her work on the PennSound website.
Paul Hoover has said of her work, "Astonishing things quietly occur." Andrei Codrescu notes, "Her exuberant style and tremendous energy shine in her strongly feminist works." and reviewer Barbara Einzig has said, "there"s still dirt under her nails.
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Her papers are held at University of California, San Diego.
( From the poet’s birthplace in Graceville, Minnesota, to...)
(Book by Owen, Maureen)
(Book by Owen, Maureen)
Daughter of Vincent Robertson and DeLoris Phalen. Divorced; children: Ulysses Owen, Patrick Owen Brenner, Kyran Owen-Mankovich.