Why is there so much celebrity poetry? Since 2014, when Faber scorned the ghost of TS Eliot by printing the American actor ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Bad poems never die, never really go away: The vigor of their badness preserves them. Up they float into bad-poem limbo, ...

There’s something about autumn that makes me crave poetry. Maybe it’s residual, first day of school nostalgia; maybe it’s that pesky seasonal affective disorder creeping in and begging for the ...

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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). null NEW YORK — There was expectation in ...

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.