Verse Creator Mugs

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.'

Creator's Block

Poetry Buff.

The Thinker (with a laptop).

Alexander Pope

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

The Poet.

Richard Graves.

Louise Glück

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

'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.

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

Ezra Pound

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

Warriner's Efficient Poetry

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

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

Beware of Doggerel

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

"And you can quote me on that."

'The mARTyr'

God's Writers Block

A.E. Housman