The Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest has done that for more than 30 years. This time around, the judges in the front row were ready to revel in wretchedness, ...

Writing intentionally bad poetry dates to 18th-century poet Alexander Pope and before, says Seamus Cooney, an English professor retired from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

Artificial Intelligence Writes Bad Poems Just Like An Angsty Teen The algorithm-written poems were convincing enough to make judges think a human had written them.

Bad poems never die, never really go away: The vigor of their badness preserves them. Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, drift and coil and tangle with ...

Jamaal Bowman’s Very Bad Poetry. Before he entered politics, the representative posed some questions in verse about 9/11. By Graeme Wood. Anna Moneymaker / Getty. January 31, 2024. Share.

Bad Poetry, Great Booze: The Story Of The Hidden Bootlegger's Manual : The Salt The book's outside cover boasted poems by a disgraced writer. But inside was page after page of handwritten recipes ...

Noah Harouche, left, and Alex Grace, center, and other attendees of the annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest participate in a group reading of Kilmer's poem "Trees," at Columbia ...