Finally, the sun is out in Boston! The kids and I will be hanging out poolside at our local Y this afternoon.
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Looks like I'm reading in two different sessions of the Mass Poetry Festival this October. Woo hoo! Also, I'm on the list for NYU's spring 2010 alumni reading. And I just applied to read at the VA Festival of the Book for 2010. Keep your fingers crossed because I am a Virginia native and I would be a little crushed if I didn't read at this event in my home state.
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Don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of stories about poets making no money. Old news, if you ask me. Nonetheless, NPR has a nice story about emerging poet Elizabeth Haukaas and established poet Mark Strand.
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Tomorrow, I plan to take a substantial about of time revising my second manuscript. I should get in some reading and writing, too.
Have a great weekend!
3 comments:
In the vast majority of cases, novelists make no money, tennis players make no money, golfers make no money, poets make no money. I think the difference between poets and the other categories is that it is less likely that a few superstars make huge amounts. Acutally, that is pretty irrelevant to most of us who might as well write poems, play golf, jog or whatever it is that we love.
I think you're absolutely right, Catherine. Most of the poet/artist/athlete-with-no-money stories are written for larger audiences, but it still seems like a silly angle to cover. We do what we do because it's who we are, and maybe that's the real story.
Oh, thanks for reminding me of that story! I wanted to news it for RWP.
I think Catherine is right. There are few "professional, high-paying spots" and mostly avid lovers who keep everything going.
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