Gregory Simpson Orr

Background

Orr, Gregory Simpson was born on February 3, 1947 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of James Wendall and Barbara Ruth (Howe) Orr.

Education

Student, Hamilton College, 1964-1966; Bachelor, Antioch College, 1969; Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, 1972.

Career

Assistant Professor of English,, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1975-1981; associate professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1981-1988; professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1988. Poetry consultant Virginia Quarterly Review, since 1978.

Achievements

• Gregory Simpson Orr has been listed as a noteworthy English educator, poet by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • City Of Salt (Pitt Poetry Series)

    ( City of Salt, Gregory Orr’s sixth book of poems, is lar...)

  • Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (Poets on Poetry)

    ( A prominent younger poet's intensely personal reflectio...)

  • The Caged Owl: New & Selected Poems

    ( Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma in...)

  • We Must Make a Kingdom of it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

    (very interesting book)

  • Burning the Empty Nests

    (Poems of being.)

  • (Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry) Author: Gregory Orr published on (July, 1985)
  • Gathering the bones together: poems
  • Gathering the bones together : poems
  • Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry
  • Gathering the Bones Together

Membership

Member Poetry Society of America.

Connections

Married Trisha Lynn Winer, March 3, 1973. Children: Eliza Simpson, Sophia Katherine.

Father:

James Wendall Orr

Mother:

Barbara Ruth (Howe) Orr

Spouse:

Trisha Lynn Winer

child:

Eliza Simpson Orr

child:

Sophia Katherine Orr