There are days when it's harder than others to find bits about yourself that you deem worthy enough to be loved, and on those days you can look to these self-love poems to get yourself back on track.

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.

But that's the good thing about bad poetry — it doesn't have to be "true," or make sense, or do anything but make you cringe in literary horror. Wondering if your beloved poem qualifies as Bad?

Hopkins asked 70 people to guess who’d written a fragment of poetry – a computer or a living, breathing poet – you can try the test for yourself here. The most human poem, it turned out, was ...

Some poems by Thomas Hardy have prompted me to think about a particular kind of strangeness we might call the fascination of the deliberately awkward; or, to put it more tendentiously, the ...

Are you a real poet? "Once upon a time ... I used to wonder when or how I would know the answer to that question," writes poet Barbara Loots.

Bad writing summons the freedom to feel and to express those crushingly intense feelings. If you want to live life to the fullest, you have to allow yourself to express emotions to the fullest.

Apart from creating poetry alone, one can also celebrate the day by hosting a bad poetry writing competition.

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 ...