Icing Poets Pillows

Cupcake icing and matching hairstyles.

"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"

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

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

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

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

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

John Bunyan

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

Dating an English Major

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

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

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

'I do a lot of icing. It's part of my mellowness.'

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

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

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