*can* get, I should have said. It's not like every reader gets paid...
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Cudmore [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 December 2007 20:05
> To: 'Poetryetc: poetry and poetics'
> Subject: RE: copyright on the Net
>
> Here in Scotland, through the Live Literature scheme, readers get £150 --
half
> from the scheme and half from the organizers of the event. There aren't
many
> 'slots' available in a given year, however, so there is competition for
them
> among the various organizations putting on events.
>
> P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> > Sent: 15 December 2007 17:22
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: copyright on the Net
> >
> > Ah, the nice thing about Canada is the Canada Council which provides
> > payment for readings by recognized groups (& it's not that hard to get
> > the recognition): so I have been paid for readings (not all, but many),
> > & elsewhere (like Australia universities) too. We at The Olive Reading
> > Series here have just enough funding to pay our readers a small
> > honorarium. I think even a tiny fee counts as acknowledgment that the
> > poet too is a professional, so to speak.
> >
> > But as far as living wages: forget it (unless you're Seamus Heaney, or
> > our original complainant, etc, I guess)
> >
> > Doug
> > On 14-Dec-07, at 1:23 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
> >
> > > I've gotten a little teaching money out of it. No grantss. And I've
> > > rarely been paid for a reading. But that's the brass ring. Those
> > > revenues do exist. Not for most of us.
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> > (780) 436 3320
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >
> > the goddess fled
> > in a golden shell
> > the sea reflected
> > her image.
> > the sky shone
> > under the scarf of Isis
> >
> > Robin Blaser
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