May
30
NPR: Already Poor, Poets Don’t Much Mind The Recession
Filed Under Poegles, poetry contest, poetry for money
“But one corner of the publishing world has its own strange economy. Poets and those who publish them are used to earning next to nothing for their work. They call the cycle of rejections, teaching and issuing small books the “pobiz,” short for “poetry business.” And maybe the pobiz isn’t so bad, if you look at it a certain way.”
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