If Lost
Loblolly Press, 2024

  • "You can feel the thickness in the air, the smells, and the overgrown nature of it all. A poetry deeply connected to the place from which it comes.”

    - Keith Zarriello, musician & lead singer of The Shivers

  • ”If Lost offers us a starkly honest and rarely seen western North Carolina, with all its diverse species in bitter harmony.”

    - Leah Hampton, author of F*ckface and Other Stories

  • "Clint totally nails that ineffable darkness and quirky desperation that's so deeply ingrained in Appalachian life. He deftly interweaves naked brutality with the underdog dignity of life in the impoverished hollers of the south."

    - Seth Kauffman, musican & lead singer of Floating Action

  • "In this astounding collection, truckers cry, milkweed and honeysuckle overtake, poinsettias wilt in winter frost, and bear hunter haunt the stories of our conscience..."

    - Garrett Ashley, author of Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions

  • ...Bowman encompasses the complexity and beauty of what it means to be from the American South, capturing the quiet, sometimes bleak magic that encompasses his world."

    - Thomas Dollbaum, musician

Pretty Sh!t
Bottlecap Press, 2023

  • Pretty Sh!t touches on the “pretty” bucolic nature of rural America and the “pretty” facades of people and organized religion. This chapbook also shines a light on the shitty circumstances of many people who are raised and currently reside in these communities. Readers are taken on a journey that begins by exiting the interstate and slowly meandering through the side streets and into the trailer parks and surrounding churches. Through awareness of the good and bad, and knowledge of what is in your control, Pretty Sh!t serves as an anecdote of how to accept your past, no matter how ugly it is, while creating a more hopeful future.