As long as there has been poetry, there has been bad poetry. And now bad poetry may be emerging as its own genre. It’s sparked by a creative backlash against so-called vanity publishers that ...

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 ...

The book's outside cover boasted poems by a disgraced writer. But inside was page after page of handwritten recipes for alcohol — the secretly preserved know-how of a Prohibition-era doctor.

The Poet Laureate on bad poems, great poems, and daily distractions ...

Not everybody can be a poet but that should not stop one from trying. Therefore, Bad Poetry Day is celebrated every year on Aug. 18 to encourage people to create any type of poetry they wish, even ...

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, line by line and verse ...

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 ...