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DATE: TUESDAY, March 10, 1992                   TAG: 9203100264
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

POETRY PRIZE WINNER TO PRESENT PROGRAM

The winner of the Virginia Prize for Poetry will give a reading from his work Thursday at Emory & Henry College.

The reading by Gregory Orr in the Calliopean Room of Byars Hall at 8 p.m. is free to the public. Orr is director of the graduate program in writing at the University of Virginia, where he is a professor of English.

He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Writing and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been an exchange writer to Yugoslavia. He has a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.

- Southwest bureau 


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