Sonnet Sprint Gifts

Poetry in motion - Runners quoting poems as they jog.

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

Never write a sonnet on an empty stomach

Shakespeare working on his "author's bio"

"Before the defense rests, my client would like to read you a little sonnet he composed about his love for the jury."

Pianist carrying his instrument.

Poetry repairman

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

Maestro

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

Poetry Buff.

William Shakespeare

The Poet.

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

"O.K., I'm off to do some running and off-key singing."

Thomas Wyatt

"I can write beautiful poems, but they all rhyme with gin."

4 Rules For 'Serious' Poets

'Oh, come on, Bill, surely you can do better than 'there was an old lady from Nantucket!''

Algernon Swinburne

Beethoven's 10th

Fritz Kreisler.

Alexander Blok

"Nobody ever illegally downloaded my recordings of the Beethoven Sonatas, either."

'All I want to know is--when do I get to use the quadratic formula, political facts of South America, frog anatomy, the ecology of Johnson Creek, and the billions of other things I spent twelve years studying so diligently?'

'I'd like to renew my poetic license!'

The Moonlight Sonata

"...and so I left Wall Street and made a killing in poetry."

Burger Discus

Rupert Brooke.

"It doesn't look too promising."

Bicycle race.

Poets Arguing

William Wordsworth.

Distinguished Amateurs - The Poet