Gus: The Theatre Cat Gus: The Theatre Cat "Gus: The Theatre Cat" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake." His coat is described as "shabby" and he is "no longer a terror to mice or to rats." Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaption of the book, "Cats". In the musical, the poem is used almost verbatim
Skanky Possum Waldman, Kristin Prevallet and Sotere Torregian "Skanky Possum" ceased publication in 2012. The editors of the magazine continue to run a reading series in their new home in Toronto. Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth sent the magazine a fan letter. Skanky Possum Skanky Possum was a twice-a-year poetry journal and small book-publishing imprint begun in Austin, Texas and associated with a long-running, home-based poetry reading series. It existed between 1998 and 2012. "Skanky Possum" was first published in Fall 1998. Curated by Hoa Nguyen and her husband, Dale Smith, the imprint published American poetry, featuring both well known