The Literary Portrait hopes to provide a venue - not online but in print - for Poets interested in Real Persons and Taboo Subjects... Given the reality of censorship and the chill of libel laws, however, ours is a dangerous discipline. Our stance on censorship is as follows: "Your work will be appreciated for its artistic merit not its subject. NOTHING is taboo for Art, no claim of fact, no point of view, no inhibited thought."