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!'

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

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

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

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

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

"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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

John Bunyan

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

Tell me again how aloof and independent cats are.

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

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."

Letters escape from a caged book.

"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.''