Chances are you had to study Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” in school to examine why it’s a great poem. It’s just as likely you’ve never read William McGonagall’s “Tay Bridge Disaster,” widely ...

The contest was named for the poet known for “Trees,” a 12-line verse published in 1913 (“I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree,” it begins). NEW YORK — There was expectation in the ...

Writers of proudly putrescent poetry can share their work at the 2023 West Texas A&M University Bad Poetry Contest, presented by Brick & Elm magazine. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. March 3 in the ...

It will be interesting to see if The New York Times puts Donald Foster’s astonishing retraction of his famous “Shakespearean It will be interesting to see if The New York Times puts Donald Foster’s ...

Bad poems never die, never really go away: The vigor of their badness preserves them. Up they float into bad-poem limbo, ...

There’s something about autumn that makes me crave poetry. Maybe it’s residual, first day of school nostalgia; maybe it’s that pesky seasonal affective disorder creeping in and begging for the ...