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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suzanne Lummis, one of Los Angeles' most venerated poets, has two new books this year. Marc Haefele talked to her about L.A. poets, Philip Levine and what makes a bad poem bad. Charles Lummis, one of ...

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

“The So-Called Death of Poetry “Poetry is Dead” (“La poesía ha muerto”) is not only the title of Leonardo Borges’ work; it is also the admission of quite a few practitioners and people of letters.