Poetry Explorer Gifts

Ezra Pound

"Meet The Author"

The Bookworm

Reading my Critics

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Unfinished painting of a monster in a lake sits beside the lake with no painter in sight

John Bunyan

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

"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

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

"Oh, this old thing?"

Around the Dogbox in 80 Days.

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Dating an English Major

Stephen Spender.

Thomas Hardy

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

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

Isabel Allende

Günter Grass

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

Kid doing cave paintings

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

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