Maybe a chore for a poet (6)
I believe the answer is:
horace
'poet' is the definition.
(Roman poet)
'maybe a chore for a' is the wordplay.
'maybe' indicates anagramming the letters.
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'chore' put after 'a' is 'achore'.
'achore' is an anagram of 'HORACE'.
(Other definitions for horace that I've seen before include "Odist" , "- Walpole, eighteenth century English author" , "Is it a chore to read this old Roman poet?" , "Latin ode writer" , "Roman poet and satirist" .)