William Chrome is a poet who practices his art on the street—and gets paid for it. According to an AP story in the L. A. Times, he takes his manual typewriter and sits outside a Manhattan supermarket and writes poems to order. You give him a topic, he bashes out a poem instantly (in about ten minutes), and you give him a donation.
Chrome says he earns between $15 and $20 an hour, working half-days. His output per session is seven to fifteen poems, and he favors what he calls “spontaneous prose.”
It just goes to show that if you believe enough in your writing, there’s always a way to find an audience and get paid!
