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, ...

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.

The poem as a whole has an olden look, and I know people who would call this effect bad writing. Ultimately, any counterargument I would offer would depend on a sense of the personality governing ...

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 ...

I think I might start writing bad poetry again. I might compare love to thunderstorms and whirlwinds, a certain someone’s eyes to the depthless ocean, the happiness I feel to dancing in the rain.

Noah Harouche, left, and Alex Grace, center, and other attendees of the annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest participate in a group reading of Kilmer's poem "Trees," at Columbia ...