Pencil Poet Pillows

Accountant Manqué

"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."

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

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

"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."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

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

Dating an English Major

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Letters escape from a caged book.

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

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

Cafe Momus from La Boheme