Financial Poet Mugs

"So you're a poet? I don't get exposed to much poetry these days, unless you talk about the poetry of price-to-earnings ratios."

"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"

"I keep feeling we should float the company"

Edgar Allen Poe

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

Entering the Business Community: Assets/Liabilities

"Do me next."

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

John Bunyan

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

The truth is, Congressman, we didn't know it was wrong to screw people.

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Dating an English Major

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

"I'd like to thank my parents and my creditors for making this possible."

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"The Capt'n maintains a balanced portfolio should include a number of off-shore accounts."