Steve Orlen (January 13, 1942 – November 16, 2010) was an American poet and professor at the University of Arizona.^[1] He was visiting professor at the University of Houston, Goddard College, and Warren Wilson College.^[2] Orlen was a co-founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona and a 1967 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.^[3]

• 1999 Guggenheim Fellow
• National Endowment for the Arts fellow.

• Permission to Speak, Wesleyan University Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-8195-2090-6
• A Place at the Table, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982
• The Bridge of Sighs, Miami University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-1-881163-00-8
• Kisses, Miami University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-881163-20-6
• This Particular Eternity. Ausable Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-9672668-5-5.
• The Elephant's Child: New & Selected Poems 1978-2005. Ausable Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-931337-28-1.
• A Thousand Threads, Hollyridge Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9843100-2-9 Chapbook

• Michael Collier; Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). "The Great Wheel". The new Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.
• Ellen Bryant Voigt; Heather McHugh, eds. (2002). "Butterflies That Save Us from Ourselves". Hammer and blaze: a gathering of contemporary American poets. University of Georgia Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-8203-2416-6. steve orlen.
• Paul Muldoon; David Lehman, eds. (2005). "Song: I Love You. Who Are You?". The Best American poetry. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5758-9.

• In Memory of Steve Orlen (1942-2010) by Jerry Williams
• http://isak.typepad.com/isak/2010/11/remembering-steve-orlen-1942-2010.html
• http://avoidmuse.blogspot.com/2010/11/rip-steve-orlen.html
• http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/31-4/Collier.htm