Featured Interview With Scott Oury
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised on an Illinois farm and now live and write in the hills outside Santa Fe, NM. I’ve been a text book editor and an English teacher, rehabbed old houses, fathered two boys, climbed mountains, authored a guide to experiential writing, took a tumble off a dam—all of which has informed my writing in one form or another.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
About age 6, when I got fascinated with dog and horse stories, having grown up on a farm where we had several dogs, and horses-to-ride.
I began writing with a newspaper editorial on why teenagers from New Jersey went to Long Island to drink.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
How about just the poets who I love to read and have learned from: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Wislawa Szymborska, Howard Nemerov, John Nims, CK Williams, John Nims, Raymond Carver, Carl Shapiro, Li Young Lee—and a hundred or so more.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The latest is a book of poems, “New Moon by Half,” written over 50 years, and with the discovery that poetic forms were perfect to express my own experience and thoughts. As Frost has written, a poem comes out of a feeling that proceeds with “a series of lucky events,” that may result in wisdom. Frost says that this first feeling directs and contains the poem to come.
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