Orlen, Steve

Steve Orlen and Gail Marcus-Orlen in 1987

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LaVerne Harrell Clark

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Steve Orlen

April 15, 1970

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LaVerne Harrell Clark

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Steve Orlen

April 15, 1970

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LaVerne Harrell Clark

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Steve Orlen

March 15, 2009

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Christine Krikliwy

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UA Faculty Poets Panel Participants

January 29, 2010

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Rodney Phillips

Barbara Cully, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Steve Orlen, Boyer Rickel, and Jane Miller (L-R)

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Steve Orlen with a painting by Gail Marcus-Orlen

January 22, 1976

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LaVerne Harrell Clark

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Steve Orlen

February 13, 1985

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Lois Shelton

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Readings from this author

January 22, 2011 - Steve Orlen Tribute

Friends, colleagues, and former students of Steve Orlen (1942-2010) gather together to celebrate his life.

January 29, 2010 - UA Faculty Poets Panel

This panel discussion features faculty poets from the University of Arizona Creative Writing MFA Program. Alison Hawthorne Deming, Boyer Rickel, Jane Miller, and Steve Orlen participate in a dialogue about the writing process, moderated by Barbara Cully.

March 15, 2009 - Steve Orlen

At the inaugural Tucson Festival of Books, Steve Orlen reads poems from his Hollyridge Press chapbook A Thousand Threads (2009). This reading was originally given alongside Jane Miller and includes a question and answer session with both poets.

January 17, 2008 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads poems that would go on to be collected in his chapbook A Thousand Threads (2009), as well as five unpublished poems. This reading was originally given with Jason Brown.

November 4, 2003 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads poems that would go on to appear in his collection The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005 (2006), as well as earlier and unpublished poems.

December 3, 1997 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads poems from the just-published collection Kisses (1997), as well as new poems.

April 21, 1993 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads extensively from his collection The Bridge of Sighs (1992). His selections follow the book's four major themes, which he describes as poems of childhood, poems of love and marriage, poems of relationship, and poems of grace.

September 13, 1989 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads poems appearing in The Bridge of Sighs (1992) as well as passages from the draft of a novel entitled Homesick For the Land of Pictures.

February 13, 1985 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads from his collections Permission to Speak (1978) and A Place at the Table (1982), as well as from newer material.

October 1, 1980 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads from his books Permission to Speak (1978), Separate Creatures (1976), and Sleeping on Doors (1975).

September 24, 1978 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads from Permission to Speak (1978) and A Place at the Table (1981). This reading was originally given with Criss E. Cannady and Greg Pape.

March 9, 1977 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads from Permission to Speak (1978).

September 25, 1975 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads just after the publication of his first chapbook, Sleeping on Doors.

January 31, 1973 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads poems that would later appear in his first two chapbooks, Sleeping on Doors (1975) and Separate Creatures (1976), and his first full-length collection, Permission to Speak (1978). He also reads a number of poems that remain uncollected.

April 15, 1970 - Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen reads largely uncollected early poems, some of which appeared in Poetry magazine or would later appear in his chapbooks Sleeping on Doors (1975) and Separate Creatures (1976).