Steve Orlen (January 13, 1942 – November 16, 2010) was an American poet and professor at the University of Arizona. He was visiting professor at the University of Houston, Goddard College, and Warren Wilson College. Orlen was a co-founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Awards 1999 Guggenheim Fellow National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Works Permission to Speak, Wesleyan University Press, 1978, A Place at the Table, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982 The Bridge of Sighs, Miami University Press, 1992, Kisses, Miami University Press, 1997, A Thousand Threads, Hollyridge Press, 2009, Chapbook Anthologies References External links In Memory of Steve Orlen (1942-2010) by Jerry Williams http://isak.typepad.com/isak/2010/11/remembering-steve-orlen-1942-2010.html http://avoidmuse.blogspot.com/2010/11/rip-steve-orlen.html http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/31-4/Collier.htm 1942 births 2010 deaths American male poets University of Arizona faculty 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers