Poetry Fans Mugs

'He was a great writer'

"Just think of it, Charles – yesterday I was a caterpillar, and tomorrow I'll be dead."

"It's the first tell-all book by a former Administration insider written entirely in iambic pentameter."

"Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird won't sing, Papa's gonna flip out and make everyone around him anxious and miserable."

I've traveled back through time to warn: The aliens are here. Open Mike Night Presents Future Guy. They hitched rides in on Halley's Comet every time it's near. Living nanites masquerading as technology … depending on the gullibility of you and me. 200,000 years of riding horses and buggies ... and suddenly we're 3-D printing tools and cars and trees? They're everywhere, just biding time to finish their big plan. They're in your phones, your watch, your cars, and they are nearly done. The brain

'Joyce Kilmer is a bore - give me 'Desire Under the Elms' any day!'

Dame Edna Sitwell

"Meet The Author"

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

John Bunyan

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Stephen Spender.

Dating an English Major

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

Passed over at the Inaugural Poetry Audition

Thomas Hardy

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

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

"I'm eating baklava through my balaclava!"

Henrik Ibsen,

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

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack's Poetic Justice

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."