Poetry Guru Gifts

'He's just come back from a 'stress management' course.'

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"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."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

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

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

'He's not as studious as he looks - his backpack is full of comic books.'

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

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

John Bunyan

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

'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."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

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

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

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

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