12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs

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Artists often need to supplement their incomes with something a little more substantial, and that especially goes for poets. For instance, did you know that Robert Frost ran a dairy farm to earn some extra cash? Or that Maya Angelou sang calypso music in a nightclub?



In this comic, on the last day of National Poetry Month, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics shows us several other poets' day jobs. Which one surprises you the most?




Snider makes a few clarifications:




  • Wallace Stevens wasn't just any ordinary insurance salesman — he was an executive at an insurance company.




  • Philip Larkin was a librarian at the University of Hull.




  • Emily Dickinson had no known career other than poetry, but "her sister Lavinia was cat-obsessed. So Emily must have been forced to cat-sit occasionally." Read more...




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