Link Friday – Recession? What Recession? Poets are already broke.
Friday, May 29th, 2009NPR brings an interesting angle to the current economic discussion. Noting that while publishing is in a tailspin, poetry publishing is relatively sheltered, being used to living on scraps. So next time your parents flip out that you live on ramen noodles and scribble words on scraps of paper, you can gently remind them that they’ll be joining you soon enough.
The above site also provides a link to a Planet Money Haiku contest. I think my favorite is the following:
Technical writer
Moved to the Haiku Department –
Still paid by the word.
–Thomas Lanaghan