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I'm actually more curious what current poets do.

by KittenInABox 2y ago

josephorjoe 2y ago
Creative writing teacher.
- mikemitchelldev 2y ago
  created WordPress (Matt Mullenweg, author of motto "code is poetry")
- dhosek 2y ago
  Not that many, perhaps a bit surprisingly.
runamuck 2y ago
Cash trust fund checks.
mttpgn 2y ago
I build and deploy business process automations to AWS using Python.
- scop 2y ago
  I love this response. The beauty of claiming one’s art with a confident but plain “I” and then following with a clear and concise answer. How do you view your day job? As a necessary evil to pay the bills? As a good “real world” counterweight to the arts? I ask in good faith and genuine curiosity as I am likewise drawn to the arts but have over the years come to appreciate how my tech career keeps my feet planted on the ground.
  - mttpgn 2y ago
    I find myself grateful I can support my family financially, as it's statistically unlikely my art can ever permit me to quit my day job. Not to imply that it's in any way a quality peculiar to those who write poetry in their free time (I know it isn't), but my need for creative expression regularly seeps into the coding standards to which I hold myself, insofar as I demand a certain beauty-- such as such a thing is ever even possible-- out of the libraries I write.
dhosek 2y ago
You can get an interesting sampler by picking up a recent Best American Poetry and looking at the bios in the back. Some are academics, but there are also doctors, lawyers, accountants, and so forth. I had a long-running project which attempted to rank graduate creative writing programs by their alumni’s appearances in the prize anthologies and one interesting byproduct was collecting a lot of author bios. I think the bios for those who I could confirm had no graduate creative writing degree or could not find evidence of one were the most interesting. https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/Nograduatecreativewritingdegree.html https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/Nograduatecreativew... https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/unknown.html https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/unknown.html
dvirsky 2y ago
I know/knew a few, they usually balance things like teaching, magazine writing, maintaining social media accounts for brands, copywriting for ads, and tech jobs.

I'm actually more curious what current poets do.

josephorjoe 2y ago

Creative writing teacher.

mikemitchelldev 2y ago
created WordPress (Matt Mullenweg, author of motto "code is poetry")
dhosek 2y ago
Not that many, perhaps a bit surprisingly.

runamuck 2y ago

Cash trust fund checks.

mttpgn 2y ago

I build and deploy business process automations to AWS using Python.

scop 2y ago
I love this response. The beauty of claiming one’s art with a confident but plain “I” and then following with a clear and concise answer. How do you view your day job? As a necessary evil to pay the bills? As a good “real world” counterweight to the arts? I ask in good faith and genuine curiosity as I am likewise drawn to the arts but have over the years come to appreciate how my tech career keeps my feet planted on the ground.
- mttpgn 2y ago
  I find myself grateful I can support my family financially, as it's statistically unlikely my art can ever permit me to quit my day job. Not to imply that it's in any way a quality peculiar to those who write poetry in their free time (I know it isn't), but my need for creative expression regularly seeps into the coding standards to which I hold myself, insofar as I demand a certain beauty-- such as such a thing is ever even possible-- out of the libraries I write.

dhosek 2y ago

You can get an interesting sampler by picking up a recent Best American Poetry and looking at the bios in the back. Some are academics, but there are also doctors, lawyers, accountants, and so forth. I had a long-running project which attempted to rank graduate creative writing programs by their alumni’s appearances in the prize anthologies and one interesting byproduct was collecting a lot of author bios. I think the bios for those who I could confirm had no graduate creative writing degree or could not find evidence of one were the most interesting. https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/Nograduatecreativewritingdegree.html https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/Nograduatecreativew... https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/unknown.html https://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/unknown.html

dvirsky 2y ago

I know/knew a few, they usually balance things like teaching, magazine writing, maintaining social media accounts for brands, copywriting for ads, and tech jobs.