GREGORY ORMSON

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  • NATIONAL POETRY MONTH: a poetry/song series the last 8 days of April. Number 2, “Mescalero Territory.”

    Russell Thorburn and Gregory Ormson have worked together for over a decade writing original poems, prose, and music. Much of it happens in spite of distance and isolation. The seven songs/poems, posted for NATIONAL POETRY MONTH during April, are Ormson/Thorburn’s word/song series for the pandemic. Isolated in an Upper Midwest studio, musicians record their work…

  • Book Review of Misfit Hearts by Russell Thorburn

    GREGORY ORMSON Misfit Hearts by Russell Thorburn (Rocky Shore Books, 2012) 90 pp. $16.00 (paper) ISBN 978-0-9823319-6-5. In Thorburn’s five poetry works, I explore the poetic credo arising from his well-structured presentation of human tempest.  In Thorburn’s first work, Approximate Desire, I saluted him for bringing both gravity and grace to us with words that moved me…