times political, at other times focused on nature; at times distraught about the state of humanity, but just as often optimistic and celebratory. He often re-envisions the lives of familiar historical and mythological characters and has created his own everyman figure named Norman. He cites deep imagism, confessionalism, and surrealism among his strongest influences. and lists Whitman, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Cummings, Plath, Sexton, Yannis Ritsos, Yehuda Amichai, CP Cavafy, George Seferis, Adrienne Rich, Galway Kinnell, and Tim Peeler as the poets who have had the greatest impact on his own work and thought. All of those influences can be seen in his book Counting the Ways where he utilizes Stevens' Objectivism and Eliot's Objective Correlative in a search for meaningful narratives by tracing the recurrence of particular images or motifs across personal, social, religious, historical, and literary contexts. His newest book, Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming consists of poems written mostly during the Covid-19 pandemic and which find hope and meaning in nature, love, family, work, and perspective. Like much of Owens' work the poems vary in form and voice, ranging from haiku to sonnets and prose poems. Works All In (Redhawk, 2023) Prepositional: Selected and New Poems (Redhawk, 2022) Worlds Enough: Poems for Children (and a few grown ups) (Redhawk, 2022) Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming (Redhawk, 2021) Counting the Ways (Main Street Rag, 2020) Down to Sleep (Main Street Rag, 2016) Thinking About the Next Big Bang in the Galaxy at the Edge of Town (Main Street Rag, 2015) To (Main Street Rag, 2014) Eye of the Beholder (Main Street Rag, 2013) Shadows Trail Them Home (Clemson University Press, 2012) For One Who Knows How to Own Land (Future Cycle Press, 2012) Country Roads: Travels Through Rural North Carolina, Collaboration with Photographer Clayton Joe Young (2012) Something Knows the Moment (Main Street Rag, 2011) The Nature of Attraction, collaboration with Pris Campbell (Main Street Rag, 2010) Paternity (Main Street Rag, 2010) The Fractured World (Main Street Rag, 2008) Book of Days (Dead Mule, 2009) Deceptively Like a Sound (Dead Mule, 2008) The Persistence of Faith (Sandstone, 1994) External links Architecture of loss and loneliness Wild Goose Poetry Review The Pedestal Magazine The Fractured World by Scott Owens (poems) Joe Milford Hosts Scott Owens! Scott Owens Collection - Furman University Special Collections Scott Owens' Website Scott Owens' Blog "Musings" Writer's Digest Interview with Poet Scott Owens, October