Poem Lover Mugs

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

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"Meet The Author"

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

Distractions Of The Great

John Bunyan

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

"Out damn Spot

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

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

Your enemy is defeated by Fate

"Off my back and out of the sack. Let's unpack and have a snack!"

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

Dating an English Major

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Iris Murdoch

The intellectual.

"Oh, this old thing?"

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."