[namenotrequired]

There is also a group of poets who do live off their poetry, though many are more known by other terms such as "singer-songwriter", "rapper", etc

[dvirsky]

IIRC Leonard Cohen started performing his poems as a singer to make a living.

[mjklin]

Art Garfunkel often gives performances of music and spoken-word poetry, but he refers to the poetry as “vignettes.” I believe it’s to keep the audience from being turned off by the word poetry.