World Poetry Day Gifts

"I've just invented the question mark."

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

"Norman is an island."

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

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

Edgar Allen Poe

"I didn't finish the proof but I did write this poem about my struggle."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

"Do me next."

First Novels.

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"I gotta be me!"

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Cow jumping over the moonshine.

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Novel

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Bunyan

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....