1. This is what was
bequeathed us by
Gregory Orr
7 April 09 http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php
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2. This is what was bequeathed us
This is what was bequeathed us:
This earth the beloved left
And, leaving,
Left to us. No other world
But this one:
Willows and the river
And the factory
With its black smokestacks.
Continued……

3. This is what was bequeathed us
No other shore, only this bank
On which the living gather.
No meaning but what we find here.
No purpose but what we make.
That, and the beloved’s clear instructions:
Turn me into song; sing me awake.
http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20604

4. Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr was born in 1947 in Albany, New York, and
grew up in the rural Hudson Valley, and for a year, in a
hospital in the hinterlands of Haiti. He received a B.A.
degree from Antioch College, and an M.F.A. from
Columbia University.
He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including
How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009);
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
(2005); The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (2002);
Orpheus and Eurydice (2001); Burning the Empty Nests
(1997); City of Salt (1995), which was a finalist for the L.A.
Times Poetry Prize; and Gathering the Bones Together
(1975).
He is also the author of a memoir, The Blessing (Council
Oak Books, 2002), which was chosen by Publisher's
Weekly as one of the fifty best non-fiction books the year,
and three books of essays, including Poetry As Survival
(2002) and Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry
(1985).
http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/218

5. National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of
poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The
concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media
— to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic
heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic
range and concern.

6. THANK YOU
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