The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 10/27/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Love Poem

A black biplane crashes through the window
of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down,
removing his leather hood.
He hands me my grandmother's jade ring.
No, it is two robin's eggs and
a telephone number: yours.

Gregory Orr

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GREGORY ORR has published ten poetry collections, including How Beautiful the Beloved, forthcoming in 2009; the book length lyric sequence, Concerning the Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved (Copper Canyon, 2005); The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems, Orpheus and Eurydice, City of Salt, We Must Make a Kingdom of It, The Red House, Gathering the Bones Together, and Burning the Empty Nests. Books of criticism include Richer Entanglements, Stanley Kunitz, An Introduction and Poetry As Survival, and The Blessing, a memoir. He coauthored Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World, with Ellen Bryant Voigt. Orr was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for Violence and Survival and received NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He served for 25 years as Poetry Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.


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RL

[blueraven95]

1. morning!

I love the sweet dream quality of this one.


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[RetroLounge]

4. Mmmm, dreamy, yes...

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RL

[Chorophyll]

2. I love Gregory Orr!

I used his poem "Litany" for a writing exercise for my class. (Everyone dredged up dark and miserable stuff. They got pretty mad at me.) :)

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[RetroLounge]

5. ...

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RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. yep...it happens that way sometimes

been awhile but, I recognize that CRASH :D :donut: :hi:

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6. ...

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