Poet's work continues to leave mark after his death
Poet's work continues to leave mark after his deathBy Sandi Hoover shoover@nevadaappeal.com When nationally published and award-winning Carson City poet Bill Cowee died last month at the age of 66, it was without much fanfare, yet probably in the quiet way he would have wished.Cowee, who moved into the Evergreen Mountain View Health and Rehabilitation Center in the early 2000s, died of heart failure Oct. 16 in severe stages of diabetes after a couple of heart attacks and strokes had weakened him.He was born Nov. 15, 1942, in Wisconsin, grew up in Montana where he was "a great athlete," according to his brother John Cowee, and earned his accounting degree at the University of Southern California before moving to Northern Nevada where he worked for two decades as an accountant with his brother in Dayton.But Cowee quickly established himself as a brilliant poet, founding the Ash Canyon Poets with John Garmon in 1987 and later getting a collection of his poetry, "Bones Set Against the Drift" published by Black Rock Press in 1997."Bill's