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Owen Lewis

Owen Lewis
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Owen Lewis is the author of three collections of poetry and three chapbooks, mostly recently “Knock-knock”. His prior collection “Field Light” was a “Must Read” selection of the New England Book Awards. Honors include the 2024 E.E.Cummings Prize, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine. The poems are from his forthcoming collection “A Prayer of Six Wings.” (www.owenlewispoet.com)

Three Poems from “A Prayer of Six Wings”

In this collection of poems, Owen Lewis explores the human desire for connection with the divine while navigating an early world.

Two Poems from Knock-knock 

These poems present a reflection on mortality and memories.