Love Poet Gifts

"I'm texting you a love poem inspired by the emoji you sent me."

"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"

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

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

Red Letter Days - A declaration of love in public

John Bunyan

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

Letters escape from a caged book.

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

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."

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