Poetry Buffs Mugs

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

"I have never ever heard Dante rhymed quite like that with ricochet before. Bravo Professor Firenze, you have moved our hearts!"

"Meet The Author"

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

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."

John Bunyan

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Dating an English Major

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

Stephen Spender.

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Thomas Hardy

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

"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."

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

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

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

Local rock claims to have been muse for Emily Dickinson poem "I'm that 'little stone' honest to goodness!"

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"How do I love thee….? Let me count the ways…" "I'm going to want a recount."