Performance Poetry Fan Mugs

Passed over at the Inaugural Poetry Audition

"Meet The Author"

"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

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

John Bunyan

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Stephen Spender.

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

"Oh, this old thing?"

Dating an English Major

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

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

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Thomas Hardy

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

Ask not for whom happy hour ends. It ends for thee.

Nevermore. You don't have to use "air quoths" every time.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

'He was a great writer'

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

Henrik Ibsen,

Lord Byron

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack's Poetic Justice

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."

Sinking with your heart

'Love me little, love me long.'

"It's a Haiku Dinner."

The Book Lover

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

"Just what is a runcible spoon?"