1. Henry Wadsworth Shortfellow: an exponent of the art of haiku
2. Elizabeth Yerret Yellowing: wrote "Ode To Leukemia"
3. Philip Arkin: author of "The Whitsun Beheadings"
4. Siegfried Saloon: an associate of Dylan Thomas
5. Alfred Lawn Tennis-anyone?: noble versifier and sportsman
6. Bimbaud: youthful French female poet of the Sapphic school.
7. Allen Ginsberg: a friend of Dorothy Wordsworth
9. Edna Vincent Mislay: wrote a few lines but put them down somewhere whilst making a sandwich and could never find them again.
10. Geoffrey Saucer Shaped Object: medieval author of "The Canterbury Encounters of the Third Kind."
That wasn't why they called him "Shortfellow."
Posted by: Bleak Mouse | January 11, 2006 at 17:56
I never liked these "alternative" poets, with their all too contrivted monikers. I am sticking with Edward DeVere; his comedies, tragedies, and histories are all a person really needs. With an occasional musical break provided by Zimmerman.
Posted by: Mortimer Shy | January 11, 2006 at 18:02
Or Zimmerframe in the case of most of the older poets.
Posted by: stephenesque | January 12, 2006 at 08:46