For Owen

"For Owen"
Author	Stephen King
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Poetry
Published in	Skeleton Crew
Publication type	Anthology
Publisher	Signet Books
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Publication date	1985

For Owen is a poem by Stephen King first published in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. The thirty-four line free verse poem consists of eleven unrhymed, unmetered verse paragraphs. The poem concerns King walking his son Owen to school, as the boy describes a fantastical school attended by anthropomorphized fruit.

The Mist
"Here There Be Tygers"
"The Monkey"
"Cain Rose Up"
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"
"The Jaunt"
"The Wedding Gig"
"Paranoid: A Chant"
"The Raft"
"Word Processor of the Gods"
"The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands"
"Beachworld"
"The Reaper's Image"
"Nona"
"For Owen"
"Survivor Type"
"Uncle Otto's Truck"
"Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)"
"Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2)"
"Gramma"
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
"The Reach"

Stephen King

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Novels	Carrie (1974) 'Salem's Lot (1975) The Shining (1977) The Stand (1978) The Dead Zone (1979) Firestarter (1980) Cujo (1981) Christine (1983) Pet Sematary (1983) Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) The Talisman (1984) It (1986) The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) Misery (1987) The Tommyknockers (1987) The Dark Half (1989) Needful Things (1991) Gerald's Game (1992) Dolores Claiborne (1992) Insomnia (1994) Rose Madder (1995) The Green Mile (1996) Desperation (1996) Bag of Bones (1998) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) The Plant (2000; unfinished) Dreamcatcher (2001) Black House (2001) From a Buick 8 (2002) The Colorado Kid (2005) Cell (2006) Lisey's Story (2006) Duma Key (2008) Under the Dome (2009) 11/22/63 (2011) Joyland (2013) Doctor Sleep (2013) Mr. Mercedes (2014) Revival (2014) Finders Keepers (2015) End of Watch (2016)

The Dark Tower series	The Gunslinger (1982) The Drawing of the Three (1987) The Waste Lands (1991) Wizard and Glass (1997) Wolves of the Calla (2003) Song of Susannah (2004) The Dark Tower (2004) The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)

Richard Bachman novels	Rage (1977) The Long Walk (1979) Roadwork (1981) The Running Man (1982) Thinner (1984) The Bachman Books (1985) The Regulators (1996) Blaze (2007)

Short fiction collections	Night Shift (1978) Different Seasons (1982) Skeleton Crew (1985) Four past Midnight (1990) Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993) Six Stories (1997) Hearts in Atlantis (1999) Everything's Eventual (2002) Just After Sunset (2008) Stephen King Goes to the Movies (2009) Full Dark, No Stars (2010) The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)

Non-fiction	Danse Macabre (1981) Nightmares in the Sky (1988) On Writing (2000) Secret Windows (2000) Faithful (2004) "Guns" (2013) Hearts in Suspension (2016)

Screenplays	Creepshow (1982) Cat's Eye (1985) Silver Bullet (1985) Maximum Overdrive (1986; also director) Pet Sematary (1989) Sleepwalkers (1992) A Good Marriage (2014) Cell (2016)

Teleplays	"Sorry, Right Number" (1987) Golden Years (1991) The Stand (1994) The Shining (1997) "Chinga" (1998) Storm of the Century (1999) Rose Red (2002) Kingdom Hospital (2004) Desperation (2006) "Heads Will Roll" (2014)

Comics	Creepshow (1982) Heroes for Hope (1985) The Secretary of Dreams (2006) The Dark Tower (2007–) The Stand (2008–12) The Talisman (2009–10) American Vampire (2010) N. (2010) Road Rage (2012) The Dark Man (2013)

Musical collaborations	Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997) Black Ribbons (2010) Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2012)

Anthologies edited	The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007) Six Scary Stories (2016)

Worlds and concepts	Fictional locations of Maine Jerusalem's Lot Castle Rock Derry Fictional books Multiverse All-World Connections to The Dark Tower

Related articles	List of adaptations Books about Stephen King Dollar Baby Philtrum Press Charlie the Choo-Choo Rock Bottom Remainders Tabitha King Joe Hill Owen King

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For Owen

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