David Orr (journalist)

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David Orr (born 1974) is an American journalist, attorney, and poet who is noted for his reviews and essays on poetry. [1]

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Orr grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. [2] He earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Princeton University in 1996, [3] and subsequently a J.D. degree from Yale Law School. While still a law student, Orr published a review in Poetry Magazine . [4] While practicing law, Orr has written reviews and essays for Poetry Magazine , The New York Times , and other periodicals. Orr was awarded the 2004 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing of the National Book Critics Circle. [5] In 2005 he became a columnist for the New York Times Sunday Review of Books , where his On Poetry column appears occasionally. [2] He was the Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in 2006-2007. [3]

Several of Orr's poems have been published in Poetry Magazine . [6] In 2011 he published Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry, [7] of which Craig Morgan Teicher has written, "David Orr, the New York Times Book Review's poetry columnist as well as a poet, is a guide after my own heart as he seeks not just to initiate the uninitiated in his new book, Beautiful & Pointless, but also to hold a mirror up to the poetry world itself." [8]

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  1. ↑ Oppenheimer, Mark (November 2009). "David Orr: On how he wields his poetry power" (PDF). New Haven Review (5): 69–76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-14.
  2. 1 2 "Up Front". The New York Times. April 24, 2005.
  3. 1 2 "Opening up the insular poetry world: David Orr '96 writes about poetry for nonpoets". Princeton Alumni Weekly. February 14, 2007.
  4. ↑ Orr, David (1999). "The Poetics of Populism". Poetry. 174 (4): 231–239.
  5. ↑ Shapiro, Gary (March 25, 2005). "Celebrating The Career Of Myron Kandel". The New York Sun .
  6. ↑ "David Orr". The Poetry Foundation.
  7. ↑ Orr, David (April 5, 2011). Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry . Harper. ISBN   978-0-06-167345-0.
  8. ↑ Teicher, Craig Morgan (April 14, 2011). "The Secrets of Poetryland: David Orr reveals what poets and readers need to know about each other". Slate.
  9. ↑ Champion, Edward (July 10, 2006). "In Defense of David Orr". Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits.
  10. ↑ Goodyear, Dana. "The Moneyed Muse: What can two hundred million dollars do for poetry?". The New Yorker. February 19/26, 2007 (double issue).
  11. ↑ Casteen, John (Summer 2007). "Shoot the Messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry". The Virginia Quarterly Review: 272–273. Archived from the original on 2010-08-23.
  12. ↑ Sklar, Rachel (March 12, 2007). "Literary Feud! NYTBR Smacks Up The New Yorker On...Poetry". The Huffington Post.
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