Steve Orlen Explained

Steve Orlen (January 13, 1942 – November 16, 2010) was an American poet and professor at the University of Arizona.^[1] He was visiting professor at the University of Houston, Goddard College, and Warren Wilson College.^[2] Orlen was a co-founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona and a 1967 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.^[3]

Awards

• 1999 Guggenheim Fellow
• National Endowment for the Arts 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,
• Book: This Particular Eternity. Ausable Press. 2001. 978-0-9672668-5-5.
• Book: The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems 1978-2005. Ausable Press. 2006. 978-1-931337-28-1.
• A Thousand Threads, Hollyridge Press, 2009, Chapbook

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=5a5_Ii2R3qUC&q=steve+orlen&pg=PA209. The Great Wheel. The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. Michael Collier . Stanley Plumly . UPNE. 1999. 978-0-87451-950-1 .
• Book: Hammer and blaze: a gathering of contemporary American poets . registration. 206. steve orlen.. Butterflies That Save Us from Ourselves. Ellen Bryant Voigt . Heather McHugh . University of Georgia Press. 2002. 978-0-8203-2416-6 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=7SBON62u9ekC&q=steve+orlen&pg=PA216. Song: I Love You. Who Are You?. The Best American poetry. Paul Muldoon . David Lehman . Simon and Schuster. 2005. 978-0-7432-5758-9 .

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steve Orlen, professor, dies from cancer – News – Arizona Daily Wildcat – the University of Arizona . 2011-06-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110823125439/http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/news/steve-orlen-professor-dies-from-cancer-1.1786540 . 2011-08-23 .
2. Web site: Remembering Steve Orlen | the University of Arizona Poetry Center . 2011-06-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326092906/http://poetry.arizona.edu/content/remembering-steve-orlen . 2012-03-26 .
3. Web site: Steven Orlen: 1942–2010. The Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 5 October 2014.