Reading Poetry Gifts

"You're not the first owl I've been with."

Leda knew it was serious when the visited Ikea together.

Sportsmen rowers overtaken by the Owl and the Pussycat

Limerick town council meeting.

"This 'road not taken' where we're going for dinner, was she also a road not travelled?"

"Your looks are laughable, unphotographable. Happy valentine's day."

"There was only one set of footprints because you told me I was fired."

'Oh, I'm the captain of my soul, all right -- it's just that I'm married to a fleet admiral.'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

"I didn't finish the proof but I did write this poem about my struggle."

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

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

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

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

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

"I gotta be me!"

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Cow jumping over the moonshine.

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

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

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

John Bunyan