Gregory Orr

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Gregory Orr is a poet who lives in Charlottesville. Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry and a memoir. He is professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.[1]


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Smartish Pace Reading Series

Gregory Orr reading as part of the Smartish Pace Reading Series in Baltimore, June 18, 2008.


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Selected Bibliography[2]

Poetry

  • Burning the Empty Nests
  • The Red House
  • We Must Make a Kingdom of It
  • New and Selected Poems
  • City of Salt
  • Orpheus & Eurydice
  • The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
  • Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved
  • How Beautiful the Beloved

Criticism

  • Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to Poetry
  • Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems
  • Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World
  • Poetry as Survival

Memoir

  • The Blessing

Honors & Awards[3]

  • Guggenheim Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
  • Fulbright Scholar
  • Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Violence
  • Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

References

  1. Web. Gregory Orr's UVA Faculty Page, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, retrieved May 6, 2013.
  2. Web. Gregory Orr's Wikipedia Page, Wikipedia, retrieved May 6, 2013.
  3. Web. Gregory Orr at the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, retrieved May 6, 2013.

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