Verse Creator Gifts

How a poet works

A Poem about Sand

"Do me next."

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"How about a little more muse and a little less 'meow,' huh?"

Poetry in motion - Runners quoting poems as they jog.

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

Creator's Block

Poetry Buff.

The Thinker (with a laptop).

Alexander Pope

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge caricature

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The Poet.

Richard Graves.

Dame Edna Sitwell

'You're an interesting combination of shallow and thick.'

Poet Joyce Kilmer is struck with inspiration for his poem "trees".

Louise Glück

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

Seamus Heaney.

'The rot set in when I started doing these things in my own image - my early stuff was better.'

Stanescu.

Ezra Pound

"It's for weird minds - they're not wired like mine...oh! I'm a poet and didn't know it!"

'Then it's agreed. It doesn't have to rhyme.'

Warriner's Efficient Poetry

"Hi honey, could you run by the bookstore on the way home? We're almost out of poetry."

Participants in the Poetry Writing Workshop imagine that they are imaginary persons in a situation of their own imagination.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beware of Doggerel

'Poet Laureate' door 'Gone to lunch-back twixt 2 &3'

John Dryden

"And you can quote me on that."