Poetic Thinker Mugs

It's October 17th, 2015. Do you know where your hopes and dreams went?

Greetings cards copy writer's block.

"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."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

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."

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

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

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

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

"Oh, this old thing?"

Dating an English Major

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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

Letters escape from a caged book.

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

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