Poetry Performers Gifts

Limos, trucks, S.U.V.s, rush past me in a breeze. Passing by... without a nod, while here I stand playing God...'

"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

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

"Do me next."

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."

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

"Extreme miming"

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

John Bunyan

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

Dating an English Major

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Letters escape from a caged book.

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

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