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215 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The poetry entrepreneur : creative poetry programming -- Redefining poet-in-residencies -- Lisa Gill---the poet's diner -- Alzheimer's poetry project -- A poetry festival's economic impact -- Marketing poetry : breaking out of the poetry ghetto -- Rhyme and meter revisited -- Poet's plaza -- Working with art presenters -- Poetry & popcorn -- Steero-types and the cow'vant garde -- Benefactors and poetry saints -- Investigative poetry/poetry as news -- Interviews. The poet's voices -- Sherman Alexie---the easiest way to make a living as a poet is to write fiction -- Mary Karr---eat good poems -- Naomi Shibah Nye---the word career does not fit my whole way of thinking about poetry, but the word devotion does -- James Kas---youth speaks -- Bob Holman---Bowery poetry club -- Beau Sia---bright lights of Broadway -- Paul Polansky---poetry gets the job done -- Janine Pommy Vega---words are the glue that holds us together: working with migrant farm workers and prisoners using poetry -- The typing explosion---Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo, and Sierra Nelson -- Adrian Arancibia---on being a taco shop poet -- Nuts/bolts/rants/manifestos. How to wear a beret: a manifesto -- The barbaric yawp: giving a good reading -- Booking a poetry tour: DIY style of corporate sponsor? -- Don't do your show in a vacuum: writing a press release -- Poetry broadsides -- Don McIver---poetry and radio: hman nerve ending -- Publishing: dear poet: don't forget to cash you "reality check" -- Poems and roads: poetry as subject for magazine articles and books -- Chapbooks: an avalanche of words -- Reverse blurb chapter -- Foundations, grants, fellowships, residencies. |
| Summary |
"In How to make a Living as a Poet, Gary Mex Glazner details how a diverse group of American scribes found ways to integrate poetry into their financial plans until they could do what many writers consider unthinkable - list their life's passion on their tax forms." "From marketing ideas on how to break out of the "poetry ghetto" to analyzing the economic effects of poetry festivals, Glazner shows exactly how it's possible to not just survive but thrive off one's art. And that holding on to integrity and inspiration while doing so isn't just a worthy personal goal, but an essential part of bringing poetry to a large audience."--Jacket. |
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Glazner, Gary Mex, 1957-
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Glazner, Gary Mex, 1957- (OCoLC)fst00447958
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Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
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Poetry -- Authorship.
(OCoLC)fst01067694
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
1932360697 |
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9781932360691 |
| Standard No. |
99809987430 |
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