Poetry
Moonblind
by Renée Owen & John Thompson
Newly released, this handsewn artist’s book created by Renée serves as a textural interpretation of both the poets’ lives and what’s happening in our world today. Handmade indigo-dipped Cave paper covers, letterpress printed title, silver flyleaves, beaded spine and waxed linen. Renée's original art with abstract calligraphic mark-making. The award-winning collaborative rengay poems, written in alternating stanzas by Renée Owen and John Thompson, reflect the poets’ deep immersion in and love of nature.
Dimensions: 7"H x 5"W x 1.5"D.
Published by Pig Blossom Press in 2025.
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This One Life
by Renée Owen
Backbone Press announces the Second Place Winner of its Haiku Chapbook Contest, This One Life, a collection of haiku from poet Renée Owen. Now in its second printing, This One Life was shortlisted for a Touchstone Foundation Distinguished Book Award and features a generous selection of Renée's award winning poetry. The book's cover features evocative art by talented SF Bay Area artist and arts educator Betsy Kellas. Betsy's praise for the book: "I find the poetry both immediate and transportive - here and there at the same time, in the same moment of awareness. So many words, lines, entire sections, take my breath away, make me gasp with recognition…"
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Alone on a Wild Coast
by Renée Owen
Alone on a Wild Coast received a Touchstone Book Award from The Haiku Foundation and an international prize in the annual Snapshot Press Book Awards. This compelling collection offers a modern take on the traditional Japanese genres of haiku, sequences and haibun (short prose poems).
Charles Trumbull, Editor emeritus of Modern Haiku, writes of the book: "... Renée’s work is... some of the most beautiful being written today, ... both classical and modern at the same time...." A beautiful gift for any nature or poetry lover!
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purchase from UK Publisher Snapshot Press.
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Poetry Bio
Renée's poetry is widely published internationally. Her newest book, This One Life, was shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, after winning a publication award from Backbone Press in their Haiku Chapbook Contest. Alone On A Wild Coast, her first full-length collection, received a Snapshot Press Book Award and a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. More about both books (and how to purchase) are shown above. Renée also released a handsewn book of haiku, Blossoms, and edited the Two Autumns’ chapbook Scent of the Past...Imperfect, which received a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. Selections of her work are featured in Haiku 21, in A New Resonance 7 and in many anthologies & one-of-a-kind handmade artists’ books. She has judged numerous contests and served on the juror panel for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems.She currently serves on the juror panel for THF's Touchstone Awards for Haibun. Renée enjoys performing her poetry live to the accompaniment of her musician husband, Brian Foster, on a variety of instruments. They have been featured in a number of events around the Bay area, and a recent reading is available online at the link shown below. For a lengthier bio click HERE.
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