Steve Orlen (January 13, 1942 – November 16, 2010) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and professor at the

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. He was visiting professor at the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the university in Texas with over 47,000 students. Its campus, which is primarily in s ...

Goddard College Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and gra ...

, and

Warren Wilson College Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a requisite course of study, work an on-campu ...

. Orlen was a co-founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona and a 1967 graduate of the

Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative W ...

Awards

* 1999

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

fellow.

Works

*''Permission to Speak'', Wesleyan University Press, 1978, *''A Place at the Table'', Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982 *''The Bridge of Sighs'', Miami University Press, 1992, *''Kisses'', Miami University Press, 1997, * * * ''A Thousand Threads'', Hollyridge Press, 2009, Chapbook

Anthologies

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References

External links

In Memory of Steve Orlen (1942-2010) by Jerry Williams
*http://isak.typepad.com/isak/2010/11/remembering-steve-orlen-1942-2010.html *http://avoidmuse.blogspot.com/2010/11/rip-steve-orlen.html *http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/31-4/Collier.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Orlen, Steve 1942 births 2010 deaths American male poets University of Arizona faculty 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers