Pet Poet Mugs

A dog sits at her typwriter

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

Pet Cemetery.

"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."

'My bark may be worse than my bite, but I've got a whine that will drive you up a wall!'

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"Meet The Author"

Dog looks perplexed as man has his head out the window taking in the beer smells.

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"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."

John Bunyan

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"The Bruins are down a goal. Do me a favor: Pretend you’re a Boston terrier."

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

Tell me again how aloof and independent cats are.

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

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

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

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