Seems like everyone I know is scrapping the bottom of the barrel where money is concerned right now. Very few American poets make enough money from their poetry to live on, maybe none, except for the teaching, speaking and other writing they do. Putting on a Poetry Festival requires money and doesn't bring much in. Guess that leaves love of poetry as the main motivation, but wouldn't it be a great civilization that supported poets.
Poetsville
Job description
Must be a spell binding
truth telling word wielding
sloppy dresser somewhat
geekish with an uncanny
desire to disturb the
peace of those in power
In addition please be
willing to set the
record straight
make children dance
and grandmas giggle
make soldiers lay down
their arms or use them
for hugging and please
use your creativity to
pour golden vitality
into our beloved language
taking back war talk
and recovering the universal
language of all people
amore.
Salary:
Commensurate with a non-competitive
decent standard of living wage.
Benefits..honor and respect
from the citizens of this nation.
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