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Orr is the author of several volumes of essays, criticism, and nonfiction. In Poetry as Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002), he explores poetry’s role in confronting and surviving pain and suffering.
Gregory Orr (born 1947 in Albany, New York, United States) is an American poet. Gregory Orr speaking at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday, April 9, 2018.
Orr is a professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he founded the MFA program in writing in 1975. From 1978 to 2003, he was poetry editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
GREGORY ORR is the author of ten collections of poetry, including the forthcoming How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and the recent booklength lyric sequence Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
About Gregory Orr. GREGORY ORR was born February 3, 1947 in Albany, New York. He grew up in the rural Hudson Valley. At the age of twelve, he was responsible for the death of a younger brother in a hunting accident, an event that powerfully influenced his ideas about trauma, silence and poetry.
Aug 12, 2019 · Gregory Orr. Gregory Orr is the author of more than ten collections of poems, including, most recently, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write. He is also the author of several volumes of essays, criticism, and memoir, including Poetry as Survival and A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry.
Gregory Orr explores the carnal ache of living and loving in this equable, full-bodied and flowing collection. Through his concise, perfectly formed poems, he wakes us to the ecstatic possibilities of recognizing and risking love, of pain transformed to beauty.
