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  Re: Writing and the Day Job
« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2010, 03:01:49 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Quote from: silent lotus on June 29, 2010, 06:30:37 PM
seems there are slam poets making in excess of $50 thousand a year with poetry


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Instead of having to rely on academia for work, poets can now be full-time, upper-middle class touring artists earning between fifty and a hundred-thousand dollars a year. Surely, this is the beginning of a golden age for performance poetry.
 The pastures must be much better elsewhere.  The Silver City slammers are mostly kids living with Mom.

Rick
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  Re: Writing and the Day Job
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2010, 03:03:47 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Quote from: silent lotus on June 29, 2010, 06:30:37 PM
seems there are slam poets making in excess of $50 thousand a year with poetry


http://www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,18510.0.html


Instead of having to rely on academia for work, poets can now be full-time, upper-middle class touring artists earning between fifty and a hundred-thousand dollars a year. Surely, this is the beginning of a golden age for performance poetry.
  Silent,

Gotta brush up my stage presence.

Rick
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« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2010, 03:06:42 PM » by Tom Riordan
Yes, I bet "Office Managers' Best Loved Poems" would siphon a few of those professional-poet dollars away from Mary Oliver (but don't tell her I said so, I'm trying to get her to put a blurb about me on one of her upcoming bookjackets!
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  Re: Writing and the Day Job
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2010, 03:06:56 PM » by Rick Stansberger
Quote from: Sue Lozynskyj on June 29, 2010, 08:08:22 PM
I find that if I'm busy at work I'm too tired to write at home.  I've just changed jobs and now work nights, so I'm hoping to write more.

It's the drain that always got to me.  When I worked in the steel mills, it was physical.  Once fell asleep right on a set of steps -- vertically, not curling up on one.  When I taught high school it was emotional, the month of June reserved for genteel nervous breakdown.  At "the college," it's mental, head spinning like a top at the end of the day.

Rick
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  Re: Writing and the Day Job
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2010, 03:09:10 PM » by Scott Douglas
I'm a deliberate underachiever for this very reason. (among others)
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« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2010, 03:17:27 PM » by milner place
Don't know of anyone who can make a living from just writing poetry, but quite a few who can get by from work off the back of it, once they've a reputation of one sort or another.

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