Beat Poet Gifts

Jack Kerouac

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

Marimba

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"There's really not much to obedience school. Just listen up and do what they say."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

John Bunyan

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).