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Steve Orlen is the author
of five collections of poetry, the most recent being
This Particular Eternity (Ausable Press
2001) and Kisses (Miami University Press, 1997). He has
won three awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,
and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
(1999).
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His
poems have appeared in several recent anthologies,
including
Hammer and Blaze (University of Georgia
Press, 2002),
Poets of the New Century (David R. Godine,
2001),
Jewish American Writers (Princeton
University Library Chronicle 2001-2202), and
The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
(The University Press of New England, 1999). Poems
have appeared recently in
The Atlantic Monthly, TriQuarterly,
and
The Yale Review.
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In the Spring semester of
2003, he was a Visiting Professor in the Creative Writing
Program at the University of Houston and in 2002 and 2003,
was a faculty member at Breadloaf Writers Conference. He
teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Arizona in
Tucson, and is a Core Faculty member of the low-residency
MFA Program at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North
Carolina. He is an associate editor of PoetryBay,
an on-line journal. Recent readings have been given at
Hope College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
University of Houston, and Warren Wilson College. He lives
in Tucson with his wife, Gail Marcus Orlen, a painter, and
his son Cozi.
In a review of
This Particular Eternity, Kurt Brown says:
Time, memory, and consanguinity - blood relationship, or
common ancestry. At the very least, common experience. And
further: how memory and poetry respond to one another, how
they actually resemble one another, even become one
another in the end. These are the main subjects and themes
of Orlen's newest volume,
This Particular Eternity, in which he plumbs
the mysteries of human relationship and the past looking
for clues to identity and family heritage. He is much
concerned with how others contribute to who we are what we
become."
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