GREGORY ORR is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, the most recent of

which his Selected Books of the Beloved appeared from Copper Canyon Press in the fall

of 2022. Prior to that W.W. Norton published The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

(2019) and Milkweed Editions reissued his memoir, The Blessing (2019). His prose

books include A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry (Norton, 2018) and Poetry as

Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002). At the Dodge Poetry Festival in 2018, he