David E. Cowen |
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The December Editor's Pick Poet is David E. Cowen Please feel free to email David at decowen@mapalaw.com |
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THE PLAY HOUR the joy of children two mothers on a veranda opening her smile A SINGLE LAMP ON A DARK FOGGY STREET shelter in open space the frigid air makes no compromise with the glare the snow globe outside the circle is there shelter in the open empty At least in that empty DALI’S APOSTLES a yellow wind bellows orange rain time flows through the street burrows a man with the black coat his servants walk down the upstairs case a frost bears down in a frozen fog thirteen men at a table the ground shakes under a darkened horizon the man with the guilty bread tick tock the yellow wind returns |
David E. Cowen is a trial attorney by trade and author of The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel Press, November 2014; a volume of dark and speculative poetry), which was on the 2014 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot. It was also nominated for the 2014 SFPA Elgin Award, as well as a volume of poetry entitled “Sixth and Adams” (PW Press, 2001). David lives in Houston, Texas with his wife Susan and his two sons. He practices law in the historical city of Galveston, Texas which has inspired much of his poetry and photography. His poems have been published in various online journals, such as Eclectica, The Bri-dge, Gumball Poetry, The Cynic, Cosmic Debris, Wired Hearts, as well as hard copy journals published by George Mason University, University of Texas at Edinburg (formerly Pan American University), Stephen F. Austin University, Sam Houston State University and many privately published journals. His poetry was featured in the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s radio program "Outfront" in a 2005 tribute to 9/11. His poems have been included in the 2014 and 2015 editions of the Horror Writers Association’s Horror Poetry Showcase which was a bestseller in Poetry in 2014 and again in 2015. Three short scholarly articles on the subject of zombie films written by David appeared in June Pulliam’s The Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth. His short story, “Goth Thing,” appeared in the Exotic Gothic 5, Volume 1 published by PS Publishing. Other fiction has appeared in various horror and fantasy anthologies. David is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, a member and attendee of the World Fantasy Conference, the Austin International Poetry Festival, as well as the President and a lifetime member of the Gulf Coast Poets Chapter of the Texas Poetry Society.
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