For example, Guyana's IMF and World Bank debts still leaves it strapped for cash after it has paid off the interest on these loans. The caution here is that we should not murder the story of colonialism and it continued life with over-zealous theories of its presumed death. I teach Creative Writing and English Literature at the university of Miami. Since publishing my first book, Mama Dot , in 1985, I've led poetry workshops, read my poetry at festivals and other gatherings or taught at colleges as a way to make my bread. I have never made enough money from writing to be able to simply write.
Some writers do.
My poetry sells a little, the fiction sells a bit more. This can't be new to anyone. Teaching helps me to put into words what I think is happening during that partly mysterious, partly labourious process of writing. I always respond as a reader to my work and the work of other writers, that is, most of the time I don't know what will come next. Teaching poetry and fiction helps me to account for some of the ways I read as a writer and write as a reader.