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Are Poets Rock Stars?
5 February 2008, the poet @ 12:20 am

Robert Lee Brewer asks, “Should poets be treated like rock stars?” Funny he should ask that. I was actually mulling over in my mind a possible poem written in the personified voice of a washed out rock star.

I know a poet who’s publisher refers to his reading schedule as a world tour. It seems that we are, of sorts, like rock stars. Hasn’t Billy Collins proved that? He’s got the closest thing to a cult following of any poet I know.

2 Comments a “Are Poets Rock Stars?”

1. Jim Murdoch — February 5, 2008 @ 5:32 am
   

   I guess that makes me a burnt-out rock star.

2. the poet — February 5, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
   

   The bright side is that poets actually do die of natural causes - if they don’t die in boating accidents.

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