Mark your calendars and lower your literary standards: August 18th is National Bad Poetry Day, a holiday that celebrates the messy, cringey, deeply confusing art of really, really bad verse. This is ...

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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). The Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad ...

Inside the spacious lecture hall of 309 Havemeyer last Thursday night, a crowd of around 70 people—mostly students, though a few professors and even one or two married couples from outside the school ...

Charles Lummis, one of the founders of modern Los Angeles, was many things… and not all of them good. But luckily, the literary gene made its way to his granddaughter, the poet Suzanne Lummis, who ...

We’ve all got those notebook pages crammed full of bad poetry skulking somewhere around in our pasts, don’t we? I know I tried to communicate the wretched angst and hormonal discomfort of my teen ...

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 ...

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.