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.

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

From cheesy classics to intentionally terrible zingers, we’ve rounded up the very b est bad jokes out there. Bookmark this ...

Poems spanning 1,400 years tell the tale of a revered porpoise Chinese scientists trace the Yangtze finless porpoise's history in Asia’s longest river–for conservation.

Rumaan Alam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Female Protagonist The author of “Leave the World Behind” and “Entitlement” discusses the merits of unpleasant characters.

‘Alexander and the Very Bad Road Trip’ Star Jesse Garcia Talks His Eva Longoria Reunion and the “Groundbreaking” Scope of ‘The Odyssey’ The actor is currently in Greece filming ...

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.

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 ...

As if 31 tracks and more lyrical burns than an emergency room waiting room on the Fourth of July wasn’t enough to work with, Taylor Swift’s new double album The Tortured Poets Department also ...

Jamaal Bowman’s Very Bad Poetry Before he entered politics, the representative posed some questions in verse about 9/11.