Plan B: A Poet's Survivors Manual (Chapter One)

In Plan B, McIntosh offers the answer: you need a Plan B if you want to put food on the table, wear shoes without holes in the soles, and stop living with roommates before you turn sixty. Taking us on a witty, fascinating, no-holds barred romp through his own experiences in the world of commercial writing and publishing, McIntosh reassures us that it is possible to have a successful career as a poet while holding down day jobs that make us better writers.

Chapter One Series: On Becoming a Poet

Sandy McIntosh has published sixteen volumes of nonfiction prose and poetry. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, Salon, Newsday, The Nation,The Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. During the past two years, he has been interviewed in fourteen national and international television documentaries, including PBS Frontline, about his boyhood military school companion, Donald Trump. He has been managing editor of Long Island University's Confrontation magazine and is currently publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.