Thinking about the looming tax deadline reminded me of Gary Mex Glazner's book, How to Make a Living as Poet, in which he describes various ways he's supported himself as a full-time poet, including convincing a hotel to create a poet-in-residence position, securing sponsorship to take poets across America and make a movie about it, and getting Pontiac to hire him to promote a new car. In How to Make a Living As a Poet, he reminds us to put our biggest asset -- our creativity -- to work in supporting ourselves.