Reading Poetry Mugs

"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

"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?"

"You're going to hate yourself."

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

"Meet The Author"

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

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

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"I gotta be me!"

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

John Bunyan

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

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

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

"Out damn Spot

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead