Frank LaRue Owen Author

Frank LaRue Owen's poetry is influenced by dreams, the energies of landscape and the seasons, archetypal psychology, the Ch'an/Daoist hermit-poet tradition, and Zen living. He studied for a decade with a Zen woman who—inspired by Ch'an and Daoist tradition—blended silent illumination (meditation), dreamwork, mountain-and-forest spirituality ("landscape practice"), and poetics into a unified path. Owen also studied eco-literature and eco-poetry with the late Jack Collom, a poet and professor in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. His first book of poetry, The School of Soft-Attention, was the winner of the 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize.