Performance Poetry Fan Pillows

Passed over at the Inaugural Poetry Audition

"Meet The Author"

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

John Bunyan

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Dating an English Major

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

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

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

Thomas Hardy

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

'He was a great writer'

Henrik Ibsen,

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

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

Lord Byron

The Book Lover

Sinking with your heart

'Love me little, love me long.'

"It's a Haiku Dinner."

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

"Just what is a runcible spoon?"

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'