Unlike the teaching careers of many poets, though, his was marked by long and steady tenures: twenty years at Wesleyan University, then a further ten at Smith College.
He was a "modern-day gypsy" at first, he says, moving from archive to archive without tenure or steady funding, wheedling librarians and hiring indifferent research assistants.
Kohler attributes the company's steady growth during his tenure to remaining private.
After seeing a steady stream of professors denied tenure at Yale, Serio felt strongly that she wanted to work at a place that nurtured junior faculty, which Brown seemed to do.
True, Worldwide is the BBC's commercial wing – the part that makes money rather than spends it – and during Smith's eight-year tenure it made a steady profit (£112m in 2004/05, £125m in 2011/12, both figures at 2014 prices).
But he sidestepped any mention of the steady decline in union membership under his tenure, as millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared and businesses have grown more adept at fending off union organizers.
For years, during Commissioner Kelly's tenure, one man has kept a steady hand on the helm in S.O.D.: Assistant Chief Charles S. Kammerdener, its commanding officer.
During my tenure, all accounts under me have seen steady growth.
Ms Lucas, MP for Brighton, and Mr Bartley, the party's work and pensions spokesman, take over from Natalie Bennett, whose tenure looks, with hindsight, like a period of steady growth and missed opportunity.
City Council members, who by law are not allowed to interfere in personnel matters, appear to support Chief Meehan unanimously because he has overseen a steady drop in crime and overtime expenses during his two-year tenure.
