. . . Lyric poetry is the individual self. . . a song, the affirmation
of human possibility and dignity. . . .
~ Poet Gregory Orr
~ Poet Gregory Orr
Below you'll find Richard Michelson's interesting 19:09-minute interview with poet Gregory Orr, who also is an essayist, nonfiction writer, and lecturer on poetry. The interview was taped June 12, 2014, for WHMP's The Bill Newman Show: Northampton Poetry Radio.
During the interview, Orr talks about the death of his brother, his social activism, the writing of lyric poetry, and his recent work, which he says he sees as a continuum, "part of a flowing thing" emanating from all that has come before.
Orr, who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, has published at least 10 poetry collections, most recently River Inside the River (W.W. Norton, 2013), the chapbook The City of Poetry (Quarternote Chapbook Series, Sarabande Books, 2012), and How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009).
Orr leads a poetry workshop at Glen East, which this year was held at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Gregory Orr Profiles at Academy of American Poets, Blue Flower Arts, The Poetry Foundation, University of Virginia
Ellen Rolfes, "Poet Gregory Orr: Poetry Is 'Concentrated Testimony' of Being Human", Art Beat, PBS NewsHour, September 30, 2013
Alex Dueben, "Gather the Poems Together: A Conversation with Gregory Orr", The Paris Review, September 12, 2013
"Gregory Orr: The Making of Poems", NPR, February 20, 2006
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