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Jamaal Bowman’s Very Bad Poetry Before he entered politics, the representative posed some questions in verse about 9/11.
Maybe there should be a title. Madame PLOTUS? Yes! Let’s go with that. So, as poet laureate, I imagine that a lot of people send you some really bad poetry.
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 ...
It’s sparked by a creative backlash against so-called vanity publishers that print poetry anthologies, then sell the books back to the very writers who submitted the poems.
A Poem For the Anti-Homeless NIMBYs of Lents The Lents Neighborhood Livability Association sent out a very bad poem on Christmas. Here is a poem in reply.
The Poetry Foundation opened its new home in Chicago last weekend, and as it celebrates this achievement, we decided it would be fun to ask for people's stories about being rejected from the ...
Celebrate today by turning your deepest thoughts and images into some really bad poetry. Gather some friends and arrange a reading of these bad poems.
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 ...