Blog - How does it feel to be a poet-broker?
Me - Which part of me are you asking?
Blog - Whichever part is responsible for this interview.
Me - It feels good and better and better as time goes on.
Blog - Can you tell the readers why that is.
Me - I realize that everyone is searching for a brand, or even struggling to establish one, and mine already exists. People know who Poetbroker is. I myself may not know sometimes,but others do.
Blog - Please share with us what is that brand or identity?
Me - A poetbroker is a real estate broker who uses poetry to advance his deals, and also delivers public poems to large audiences at business conferences and political gatherings.
Blog - I see. So its not simply a matter of being a real estate broker and poet?
Me- No not at all. There have been truly world class poets such as Wallace Stevens, or even TS Eliot, who earned a living as business persons without mingling art with their means of earning a living.
Blog - You have been around a large number of real estate brokers and likewise poets. Do you recognize any patterns of similarities and or differences?
Me - There are strong similarities in personal motivation and in job environment.
Blog - Many people who been around both, would take issue with that.
Me - Both are greedy but for different things. A poet wants attention while a broker wants money. The environment has similarities in that both are on what Laurel Ann Bogen calls the border, trying to bridge a gap. A poets gap, between insight and expression, is resolved on paper. The broker straddles the border between clients and closes it in escrow.
TO BE CONTINUED
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