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Inspired Berkshires Reading
Owen is participating in the Inspired Berkshires reading on April 22, 2023, at the Stockbridge Library.
Guernsey International Poetry Competition, 1st Prize
Owen won 1st prize in the Guernsey International Poetry Competition for his poem “Hospital Bed.”
Narrative Medicine Seminar
Oct 30, Afternoon Seminar, 12:30 to 4:30, “Narrative Medicine Reading and Writing the Poetry of Illness and Healing” hosted by Poets & Writers.
Personal and Public Histoires
Nov 6, 3-4:30, Four Way Books Zoom Panel with Elizabeth Gray, Jr., Brian Komei Dempster, and Cornelius Eady-- “Writing Personal and Public Histories”.
Interfacing Symposium
Owen Lewis is speaking at the Interfacing Symposium, hosted by the Stockbridge Library on Saturday, April 9 at 2:00 PM ET. Speakers at Interfacing: Poetry, Mental Illness & Mental Health include Owen Lewis, M.D., Richard Berlin, M.D., Patty Crane, R.N., and Hannah Fries. Kate Daniels will moderate.
Featured in Psychiatric Times
“First Inoculation” featured in Psychiatric Times.
Stockbridge Library Series
The Stockbridge Library Online Poetry Series presents The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Owen Lewis on February 17, 2022 at 12 PM EST.
Sakura Park
Reading Saturday, Sept 18, 2 pm, Sakura Park (Riverside and 122nd, NYC) with Nick Flynn, Alicia Ostriker, Leah Umansky and other poets.
First Inoculation
“First Inoculation” receives a commendation in 2020 Troubadour International Poetry Contest, Mark Doty judging.
Home in the Diaspora
On March 3, Owen chaired a panel at the 21st AWP conference, “Home in the Diaspora, Poetics of” with poets Nathan McClain, Aaron Coleman, Wendy French, Eamonn Wall
Library series
5 Thursdays at 6pm in April for poetry month, Owen hosts “Poetry and Narrative Medicine” events for the Stockbridge Library. Events include interviews and readings with poets Kate Daniels, Rebecca Foust, Jennifer Franklin, Abby Wender, and Dan Becker. Topics include Addiction and Recovery, Addiction and Loss, Parenting an Autistic Child, Cancer, and A Doctor Speaks.
Presence Publication
“On A.E. Stalling’s ‘Amateur Iconography: Resurrection The Harrowing of Hell’ and Section IV of Hapax--An Interpretation” published in Presence, vol V, Spring 2021
Intima Publication
“The ‘Psychiatric Biography’, A Review of Robert Abrams’s Staring Night: Queen Victoria’s Late Life Depression” published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Spring 2021.
Summer Arts at Chesterwood
Summer Arts at Chesterwood--Chair, Arts Advisory Committee. Programs of art, music, theater, and readings, May through October, 2021 at Chesterwood, Glendale, Mass. Watch for announcements on the Chesterwood website.
Teaching Award
June 11, 2021, receiving the first annual Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Teaching Award from graduating residents at Albert Einstein College of Medicine for the course “Adolescent Development Through Literature”.