Gregory Orr (poet)

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Gregory Orr (born 1947 in Albany, New York, United States) is an American poet. [1]

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Gregory Orr speaking at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday, April 9, 2018. GregOrr.jpg
Gregory Orr speaking at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday, April 9, 2018.

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. [2]

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. [3]

Selected works

Poetry

Criticism

Memoir

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References

  1. ↑ "Gregory Orr- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  2. ↑ "Gregory Orr" . Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  3. ↑ "When a Child Kills, Reflections on a Shooting Range Death, From One Who Knows". The New York Times . 2014-08-29.
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