Olivia Nuzzi’s tell-all book is finally here — and it paints a picture of obsessive love, drugs and bad poetry from the “worm ...

NEW YORK — There was expectation in the room that someone would deliver a poem as lovely as a tree. Or not. The expectation was about choosing the worst of the worst — the worst bad poem of the year.

As an act of revenge, it is Oscar-worthy. Olympic Gold standard. Stellar and sublime. Because what on earth could be more ...

Chances are you had to study Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” in school to examine why it’s a great poem. It’s just as likely you’ve never read William McGonagall’s “Tay Bridge Disaster,” widely ...

Julie sent in this poem her long distance boyfriend sent to her. She’s wondering if it’s awful enough to call it all off…. I walk across the dewy meadow What is that I see at the other end of the ...

You might’ve read singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer’s “Poem for Dzhokhar,” a tribute to the Boston bomber that won immediate and inevitable controversy and backlash. Meanwhile, on Twitter, Palmer’s ...

Writers of proudly putrescent poetry can share their work at the 2023 West Texas A&M University Bad Poetry Contest, presented by Brick & Elm magazine. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. March 3 in the ...

When I was in seventh grade, I filled up pages and pages of notebook paper with teen angst—how misunderstood I was, the color of my crush’s eyes (green, for the record), and how I dreamed of being ...

The contest was named for the poet known for “Trees,” a 12-line verse published in 1913 (“I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree,” it begins). NEW YORK — There was expectation in the ...