How to Make a Living as a Poet
Autor Gary Mex Glazneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2005
How to Make a Living as Poet details how Gary Max Glazner and a diverse group of American scribes—including Sherman Alexie, Mary Karr, Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul Polansky and Beau Sia—found ways integrate poetry into their financial until they could do what many writers consider unthinkable: list their life’s passion on their tax forms.
Glazner should know. After selling the flower shop he owned for 18 years the champion of the 1998 Poetry Olympics worked as a poet-in-residence at a hotel (leaving 45,000 copies of his poems on guests pillows!), secured sponsorship to take 100 poets on an 8,000-mile tour of America and even got Pontiac to hire him to promote a new car. From the story of his own project using poetry to help Alzheimer’s patients to an interview on the nuts and bolts economics behind the world’s only "Poetry Diner," Glazner details how creativity off the page can spark even new approaches to writing itself. From marketing ideas for how to break out of the "poetry ghetto" to the how’s and why’s of analyzing the economic impact of slam festivals, Glazner shows exactly how its possible to not just survive but thrive off one’s art.
Glazner should know. After selling the flower shop he owned for 18 years the champion of the 1998 Poetry Olympics worked as a poet-in-residence at a hotel (leaving 45,000 copies of his poems on guests pillows!), secured sponsorship to take 100 poets on an 8,000-mile tour of America and even got Pontiac to hire him to promote a new car. From the story of his own project using poetry to help Alzheimer’s patients to an interview on the nuts and bolts economics behind the world’s only "Poetry Diner," Glazner details how creativity off the page can spark even new approaches to writing itself. From marketing ideas for how to break out of the "poetry ghetto" to the how’s and why’s of analyzing the economic impact of slam festivals, Glazner shows exactly how its possible to not just survive but thrive off one’s art.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781932360691
ISBN-10: 1932360697
Pagini: 215
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: SOFT SKULL PRESS
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 1932360697
Pagini: 215
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: SOFT SKULL PRESS
Locul publicării:Canada
Notă biografică
Gary Mex Glazner is a florist turned poet. In 1990 he founded the National Poetry Slam and remained active in the poetry slam movement. Additionally, he's the author of three books Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets, How to Make a Living as a Poet, and How to Make a Life as a Poet. The founder of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, awarded the Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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In How to Make a Living as a Poet, leading slam poet Gary Mex Glazner shows how to turn poetic passion into a paying profession, revealing how he and other writers have become "full-time poets," actually listing their life's passion on their tax forms. Glazner should know. He has worked as a poet-in-residence at a hotel, secured sponsorship for 100 poets on an 8,000-mile tour of the U.S., and traveled the world with a poet's eye and budget, performing everywhere from Katmandu to Bangkok to Paris. From the story of his own project using poetry to help Alzheimer's patients to an interview about the world's only "Poetry Diner," Glazner details how creativity off the page can energize audiences and spark new approaches to writing. The book offers marketing ideas for how to break out of the "poetry ghetto," explains the economic impact of slam festivals, and shows how to not just survive but thrive financially off one's art. Included are interviews with Sherman Alexie, Mary Karr, Naomi Shihab Nye, James Kass, Beau Sia, Janine Pommy Vega, and other poets.