Poe's Poetic Fan Mugs

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

"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."

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"Meet The Author"

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."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate 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 Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

"Out damn Spot

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Dating an English Major

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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Letters escape from a caged book.

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

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

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

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

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