From the 2011 AWP Conference Schedule:
Tribute to Orchises Press. Five poets who are beneficiaries of Roger Lathbury’s care and attention will pay tribute to Orchises Press then read an Orchises poem each. Together we represent a range of the press’s generosities, from its long championing of David Kirby’s work to the recovery of an out-of-print Barbara Hamby classic, to multi-book support of emerging poets John Poch and Terri Witek, to the launch of the skyrocket that is Lia Purpura, we all have something to say in appreciative description of the press and its publisher.