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There is also a group of poets who do live off their poetry, though many are more known by other terms such as "singer-songwriter", "rapper", etc

• dvirsky 2y ago
  IIRC Leonard Cohen started performing his poems as a singer to make a living.
• mjklin 2y ago
  Art Garfunkel often gives performances of music and spoken-word poetry, but he refers to the poetry as “vignettes.” I believe it’s to keep the audience from being turned off by the word poetry.