I was never a gangster, I never sold drugs, I never carried a gun... I worked every day since the age of fifteen. I knew my virtues couldn't save me.

Sometimes, we don’t love the person who loves us. Ancient Greeks and Romans also had a lot to say about this subject.

Looking for something to read in between the barbecues and fireworks? Try this mix of novels, short stories, poetry and more.

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 ...

Students and professors gathered in 309 Havemeyer Hall on Thursday for the annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest—a tradition that invites the student body to present their worst ...

With the work of the popular but increasingly unfashionable Rudyard Kipling in mind, George Orwell called such offerings “good bad poetry”: A good bad poem is a graceful monument to the obvious.

Believe it or not, there are dozens of little magazines publishing hundreds of bad poems (you decide!) but I judged my poems against poems I loved.

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 poetry cannot be improved even by the most beautiful pamphlet – and a rattling Tube carriage certainly affords these perseverant caterpillars no better showing. But jarring context can ruin even ...