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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

William Sieghart says he finds new poems while browsing in second-hand bookstores in the UK and online, as well as through recommendations. (Image of book via Pexels and of William Sieghart courtesy ...

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 ...

It will be interesting to see if The New York Times puts Donald Foster’s astonishing retraction of his famous “Shakespearean It will be interesting to see if The New York Times puts Donald Foster’s ...