Gregory Orr (born 1947 in

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'', Orr has been the recipient of

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's fellowship, and of Award in Literature from the

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. Gregory Orr wrote an opinion piece in the ''

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'' on August 29, 2014 about accidentally killing his brother in a hunting accident in response to the fatal shooting with an Uzi machine gun of a gun instructor by a 9 year old in Arizona.

Selected works

Poetry

*Burning the Empty Nests (Harper & Row, 1973) *Gathering the Bones Together (Harper & Row, 1975) *The Red House (Harper & Row, 1980) *We Must Make a Kingdom of It (Wesleyan University Press, 1986) *New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) *City of Salt (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995) *Orpheus & Eurydice (

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, 2001) *The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) *Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) *How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) *River Inside the River (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013) *The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019)

Criticism

*A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018) *Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1985) *Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (University of Michigan Press, 1993) *Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World (University of Michigan Press, 1996) (edited by Voigt and Orr) *Poetry as Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002)

Memoir

*The Blessing (Milkweed Editions, 2019 revised reissue)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Orr, Gregory American male poets Living people 1947 births Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Antioch College alumni