Mark your calendars and lower your literary standards: August 18th is National Bad Poetry Day, a holiday that celebrates the messy, cringey, deeply confusing art of really, really bad verse. This is ...

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 the year.

DOOR COUNTY - Death’s Door Knockers, Door County’s improv company, is hosting a contest to see who can write the worst poems. The "Poor Prize for Putrid Poetry Contest" deadlines at 11:59 p.m. on Jan.

For the fourth day of a week of war poetry in The New York Sun, guest editor Phil Klay writes: “Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)” by Herman Melville (1819–1891) is almost a bad poem (or a mediocre one).