Steve Orlen

Steve ,A"H, visited my late father and left him a copy of our family tree. I heard he was so happy that he found his cousin, my father. I heard that he was a kind and special human being.

we had a good life together. miss you

To Steve Orlen's family: I inadvertently came across Steve's obit. My first husband Bill Ross and I knew him in his Univ of Iowa days and they were in the Writer's Workshop there. We initially got to know him because we all were UMass graduates too. Steve was fun, kind and helpful and I can still picture him in the doorway at Black's Gaslight Village in Iowa City. Glad he had a wonderful productive life. Pam O"Malley

miss you still, my dear

The best classes of my life were in the creative writing program at the U of A. Steve Orlen was a powerful and important mentor to me and I have read his books over again many times in the last 30 years. I am grateful to have had his influence and kindness in my life and I will continue to remember him with great fondness.

I just found out my cousin Steve died. It is a sad morning. We met once, and this was something of great fortune but minuscule probability, the outcome of which made me truly grateful.

Sorry to hear about your loss....
Our warmest thoughts are with you.
With Love, Charlotte and son Bruce
Related to Ida Melnick and Misha Belkin,
Families of Holyoke,Mass.
Steve had requested family history and wonder if you would like this information as well as some very old photos of family.
Please contact [email protected].
It can all be emailed.

Looking at the inside cover of the February Poetry magazine, I discovered that Steve Orlen had died. I had Steve in an introductory writing class for English majors in Spring 1967. He introduced me to contemporary culture. Our assignments included reviewing a book of contemporary poetry (in my case, James Wright's "St. Judas"), a modern dance performance, and a foreign film (Resnais' La Guerre Est Finie), among other assignments. Our class discussions were ripe with ideas and references to...

I knew Steve back in the Iowa days. In an atmosphere that could be tense, Steve was unfailingly kind. I will never forget his beautiful smile, beautiful presence.

Jim Moore