Performance Poet Pillows

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

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

They hated me.

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

"If I might be serious for a moment..."

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

Edgar Allen Poe

"God, I hope no one asks me to sing."

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

"Do me next."

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

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

"Extreme miming"

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"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!"

"And this song goes out there to any girl who might consider sleeping with me."

John Bunyan

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

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

'Oh, it's a long, long time...From here to November...'

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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."

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

Letters escape from a caged book.