The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page. Gregory Orr

“If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
― Gregory Orr  

 

“Writing often reveals us to ourselves, lets us name what’s important to us and what has been silent or silenced inside us.”
― Gregory Orr, A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry

“when poets go back by way of memory and imagination to past traumas to engage or re-engage them, then those poets are taking control—are shaping and ordering and asserting power over the hurtful events. In lyric poems, they’re both telling the story from their point of view and also shaping the experience into an order (the poem) that shows they have power over what (in the past) overpowered them.”
― Gregory Orr, A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry

Orpheus & Eurydice

Poetry as Survival

Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved

The Blessing