Dreadfully Poor Publishing Co. is a small comic publishing house for prose, verse, essays, curiosities, marginalia, and other useful irregularities. It publishes from several desks at once: some orderly, some doubtful, all answerable to the page.
The house concerns itself with pieces that have been properly noticed: a turn of phrase, a misplaced grandeur, a private absurdity, a public one, a scrap of poetry that has somehow survived the weather. It is literary in the way a cluttered desk is literary: full of notes, envelopes, warnings, and promising stains.
Departments
The Observer's Commonplace gathers notes, extracts, and observations. Provisional Verse & Reluctant Prose receives poems and short literary attempts. Unassuming Haiku Musings keeps its brief forms brief. Curiosities & Marginalia preserves the useful oddments. Letters & Essays gives longer arguments somewhere to sit down.
Subscriptions
Subscribers receive new dispatches by email and access to any rooms the house has elected not to leave entirely in the street. The arrangement is modest, practical, and gratefully received.