makes room for misfits

Poetry welcomes all misfit texts.

poetry wants you

Poetry opens its arms to people society has trouble accepting.

welcome emptiness

How I enjoyed these ‘open field’ poems; especially welcome were the blank spaces in between phrases and fragments.

more truly and more strange

A poet welcomes language anomalies into his writing

enter at your own risk

Poetry is not a fiefdom or a private domain. It is a city whose gates stand wide; which has never exactly welcomed its newcomers but has always found room for them.

—Eavan Boland, Ronald Duncan Lecture, 1994