Poem Enthusiast Gifts

"Catherine's gift to us tonight is her poetry."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

John Bunyan

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

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

"Out damn Spot

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Iliadette.

Stephen Spender.

"Oh, this old thing?"

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

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

'Say baby - 'come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove, that valleys, groves, hills and fields,woods or steepy mountain yields' - Marlowe.'

"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.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

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

Henrik Ibsen,