Sentence examples for Full-time poet from inspiring English sources

Mr. Laviera left community organizing to become a full-time poet in the 1970s.

It was at this point that she began the process of easing over from full-time arts administrator to full-time poet.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

Now 32, McNish makes a living as a full-time poet, doing readings and organising workshops both in Cambridge, where she lives, and internationally.

Ms. Dennings, who lists knitting and painting as hobbies, grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs as Katherine Litwack, the youngest of five children; her mother is a speech therapist turned full-time poet and her father is a molecular pharmacologist.

Brown, 36, was a paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne, a gondolier and a television weatherman before becoming a full-time poet 12 years ago.

As someone who tries to find spare moments to write and read poetry while holding down an unrelated full-time job and part-time job, I can't help but think that the profs who have the luxury of being full-time poets should be turning out much better work than they ultimately do.

There are full-time poets.

"I don't think it would be especially helpful to be a poet full-time.

Set near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in 2007, the movie takes place mainly after Beverly Weston Sam Shepardd), a onetime poet and full-time alcoholic, has disappeared.

Fresno, which is providing a $2,000 stipend for a two-year term, chose James Tyner, 37, an award-winning poet, a full-time librarian and the author of a chapbook of poetry, "The Ghetto Exorcist".