“We are encouraging people who write poetry or don't write poetry to get their work out there. We want to show that we can get published and this is where to start.”
Amanda Cunningham
“Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.”
A.J. Chilson
“People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic than the institutional/academic poets.”
Peter Davison
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people”
Adrian Mitchell
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”
Paul Dirac
“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
John Ashbery
