Poetry Recitalist Mugs

Lady reading

"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."

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"Meet The Author"

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

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

Impressing dad.

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

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

John Bunyan

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Oh, this old thing?"

Letters escape from a caged book.

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

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

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."

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