How to Make a Living as Poet details how Gary Max Glazner and a diverse group of American scribes--including Sherman Alexie, Mary Karr, Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul Polansky and Beau Sia--found ways integrate poetry into their financial until they could do what many writers consider unthinkable: list their life's passion on their tax forms.
Glazner should know. After selling the flower shop he owned for 18 years the champion of the 1998 Poetry...