The Poetry Buff Mugs

A Poet

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

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

German Expressionist Breakfast

John Bunyan

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

Audio Books

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Stephen Spender.

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

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

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

Thomas Hardy

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Local rock claims to have been muse for Emily Dickinson poem "I'm that 'little stone' honest to goodness!"

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

Moby Dick

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

Nevermore. You don't have to use "air quoths" every time.

Myths and legends...

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"How do I love thee….? Let me count the ways…" "I'm going to want a recount."

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."