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.

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, ...

As long as there has been poetry, there has been bad poetry. And now bad poetry may be emerging as its own genre. ... then sell the books back to the very writers who submitted the poems.

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 ...

Well, I’ve written bad poems myself, so I’m sympathetic. There are those of us for whom it is necessary to write poetry. And if you are dedicated to that and willing to work very hard, your ...

National Bad Poetry Day Create some really bad verses on #NationalBadPoetryDay. August 18, 2017. Adéle Bloem 1 minute read. Facebook ...

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 ...