Gregory Orr (poet)
Gregory Orr is an American poet.
Featured on National Public Radio's This I Believe, Orr has been the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts's fellowship, and of Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 2014 he published an opinion piece in the Sunday Magazine of The New York Times 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
- Gathering the Bones Together
- 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
- River Inside the River
- The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write
- Selected Books of the Beloved
Criticism
- A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry
- 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