Poetry Reader Gifts

"Okay, so I got rid of the owl.."

"Meet The Author"

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

John Bunyan

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

"Out damn Spot

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Stephen Spender.

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

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

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

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

Dating an English Major

Thomas Hardy

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

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

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

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

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

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

'He was a great writer'

Henrik Ibsen,

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

"It's a Haiku Dinner."

Lord Byron