Sonnet Aficionado Mugs

4 Rules For 'Serious' Poets

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

Friedrich Schiller

"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."

"How else will I know when I'm clean as a hound's tooth?"

Little ship of horrors

'It's only the library ghost - he was a great poet but a failed novelist.'

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

Poetry Buff.

Nikolai Gogol

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

'How about that? -- Lady Godiva got a bouffant!'

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Irish Writers showing mastery over English

Famous Like Song

Portrait artist drawing DNA patterns.

The Poet.

'Wait a minute, this guy is missing a head Oh jeez, we're totally gonna crash,'

"Maybe he's waving and drowning."

"Sure, I can help you improve your mating call: that's my specialty..."

'Major poets' 'Minor poets' 'Free agents'

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

"Their lawyer found out that I enjoy reading poetry, and that I also like to watch professional wrestling. They're calling it a conflict of interests."

William Blake.

"Dad, I hold a professorship, in poetry at Harvard. I'm widely published. I'm well off. I'll retire in three years. The odds of me going into medicine at this point are slim to none."

"If you quote Rilke again, I'm just going to have to take my bra off!"