Poetry Appreciators Mugs

"They'd stop if we told them rap was poetry."

'I think the eight reindeer just look tiny by COMPARISON.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

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."

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

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

John Bunyan

"Out damn Spot

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Iliadette.

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

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Dating an English Major

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

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

Stephen Spender.

'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.'

Thomas Hardy

Ask not for whom happy hour ends. It ends for thee.

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

"Let's see. Seuss... Seuss... Here we go. That's a medium box of bagels and lox and a pop on the rocks by seven o' clock."

'He was a great writer'

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

Henrik Ibsen,