“As a poet, I do not feel as if I am limited to my personal experiences when I am moved to create a poem. Although I often find myself gravitating towards experiences I have access to, I am comfortable with projecting the “what if” principle to activate my personal connection to any ideas worthy of exploring.”
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, author of Stay Poet
An entrepreneur applies to someone who creates value by offering a product or service. So why not a poet? Why not poetry? Why not stay a poet? Stay Poet.
STAY POET is a career management self-help handbook for next-generation Slam Poet Professionals. STAY POET examines the journey of an A-List Slam Poet through a series of exercises and personal stories and case studies, to bring you the truth behind exactly what it takes to make it as a full time working poet. Over the course of 10 chapters, STAY POET covers a variety of foundation building tactics and techniques of maximizing career landmark experiences offering a complete strategy that you can start implementing today based on your own interests and abilities. We address the impact of inspiration and support the process of strengthening your methods of accessing motivation and the role it plays in cementing your success. STAY POET encourages the young poet to stay the course and the veteran poet to change the course as needed.
Authored by Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, STAY POET will guide you to consider the removal of the stigma that a poet has to be a poor starving artist with endless limitations stacked over their options of obtaining a sustainable career as a full time artist. With well over 150 pages of actionable content, STAY POET is expected to be the biggest must-have handbook for a slam poet of this decade.
Perhaps the most exciting portion of STAY POET is the idea of having access to an active resource for newcomers to the performance poetry genre. With proper implementation of building your foundation, a poet can potentially consider options of dumping the life of the 9-5 when the time is right. Included in STAY POET is a special words of wisdom section from both veteran poets and brave new poets on their way to making a tangible choice to living their dream. From personal diary case studies to candid interviews, STAY POET will provide you the insight to moments that will help you stay the path, leading to the stepping stone to ultimately empower you to take what works and mold it for your own business in building your STAY POET brand mantra. Simply put, think of this as a handbook on how to stay a poet.
The first of its kind book, which we’d like to refer to as The Go-To-Process of Becoming for spoken-word poets, we would like to welcome you to keep up with Iyeoka’s blog to stay tuned for more details.
Iyeoka has provided inspiration and guidance to many poets with her popular lecture The Art of Staying a Poet. She is living proof that you can be a successful authentic voice while making a living on the path of creating your own road map to your passions.
