Larsen Bowker has published several hundred poems in small magazines in the United States, Canada, and England. In 2002 Bellowing Ark published a book of his poems, Prairie Winds, and in 2003 Pudding House published his chapbook, Something Higher, a long narrative poem (reviewed in Midwest Poetry Review).
He is a collector of books and jazz records, a teacher and a tennis coach, and he serves on the board of the Blue Ridge Writer's Conference. Occasionally he teaches creative writing as an adjunct professor at Wilkes College in Pennsylvania.