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David Orr

David Orr writes about poetry for NPR Books. He is the author of Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry and serves as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review.

Orr's criticism has been honored with Poetry magazine's Editor's Prize for Reviewing and with the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

  • Monica Youn, who joined NPR as a NewsPoet <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/04/27/151517039/newspoet-monica-youn-writes-the-day-in-verse">last year</a>, works as a lawyer. She says that poetry appears in law more often than you might think — but nobody calls it poetry.
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    From Dissections To Depositions, Poets' Second Jobs
    David Orr
    Great poetry almost never leads to great paychecks. Even award-winning poets need to pay the bills. Many teach, but others are doctors, scientists, lawyers, undertakers or even market analysts. In celebration of National Poetry Month, writer David Orr takes a look at the secret lives of poets.