Artists often need to supplement their incomes with something a little more substantial, and that especially goes for poets. For instance, did you know that Robert Frost ran a dairy farm to earn some extra cash? Or that Maya Angelou sang calypso music in a nightclub?
In this comic, on the last day of National Poetry Month, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics shows us several other poets' day jobs. Which one surprises you the most?
Snider makes a few clarifications:
Wallace Stevens wasn't just any ordinary insurance salesman -- he was an executive at an insurance company.
Philip Larkin was a librarian at the University of Hull.
Emily Dickinson had no known career other than poetry, but "her sister Lavinia was cat-obsessed. So Emily must have been forced to cat-sit occasionally."
You can purchase Snider's comics as prints through his poster shop.