Steve Orlen - November 4, 2003

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
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go on to appear in his collection The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005 (2006), as well as earlier and unpublished poems.

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Introduction
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by Sommer Browning

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"Blind Date"
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Differs slightly from the published version.

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Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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"Night of Many Orgasms"
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Later integrated into a longer poem titled "Poem for Women and for Men." Differs from the published version.

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Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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"Ars Poetica"
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Orlen, Steve. This Particular Eternity. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2001.

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"Fourteen"
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Differs from the published version, which bears the title "Reunions."

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Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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"A Conversation"
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Later integrated into a longer poem titled "The Art of Conversation." Differs from the published version.

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Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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"The Painter"
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Orlen, Steve. This Particular Eternity. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2001.

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"Succubus"
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Unpublished.

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"The Shaping Ground"
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Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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"The Last Americans"
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Unpublished.

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"Bananas"
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Unpublished.

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"Poem for Women and for Men"
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Differs from the published version.

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Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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"Let It Snow"
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Differs slightly from the published version.

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Citation

Orlen, Steve. The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2006.

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