World Poetry Day is an initiative of UNESCO. It is a day to appreciate and support poets and poetry around the world. It is held on 21 March each year.
These Are The Day Jobs Of 12 Famous Poets.
Grant Snider of Incidental Comics illustrates the day jobs of 12 famous poets.

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6 thoughts on “The Day Jobs Of 12 Famous Poets”
Larkin was a university librarian not a public librarian
Damn, never going to be famous, don’t have one of those jobs. Poo
Great except that Emily Dickinson was not in the least a crazy cat lady (stereotype?). Her sister had cats but Emily loved birds too much. Probably the least cat-loving poet of them all!
“il faut (d’abord) durer” we must, first of all, endure
Am I the only one singing this in her head to the tune of “We didn’t start the fire”?
I need a job for poets
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