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Owen Lewis
A Prayer of Six Wings

In A Prayer of Six Wings, poet Owen Lewis explores his grief and shock in the wake of the 
October 7th attacks in Israel and during the following year. His poems intersperse newspaper headlines with his reactions and those of his family in Israel, as they grapple with the complex emotions so many of us share—horror at the suffering of both Israeli and Gazan victims, helplessness, dismay at the rise in antisemitism, and our desire for an elusive peace. 

Owen Lewis is a psychiatry professor at Columbia University and the award-winning author of four poetry collections. He has received the E.E. Cummings Prize, the Guernsey International Poetry Prize, and the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, among others.