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.

True about Anne Sexton’s grandmother—but to extend Auden’s cantankerous question, “Who cares about thrushes?” (Thomas Hardy did, and now I do.) “Who cares about daffodils?” (Wordsworth did, and ...

Yesterday, we provided readers with a single line of “bad” poetry penned by local poet Rich Levy in a last-minute telephone conversation. We asked readers to mine their inner anti-poets to help us ...

The post Nick Cave Says Charles Bukowski Is the “Bukkake of Bad Poetry” appeared first on Consequence. A great lyricist might remind you of your favorite literary icon, and some lyricists might take ...

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 ...

Happy Bad Poetry Day everybody! Crack out your bongos along with your pad and paper and be unashamed to lay down a bit of verse that ought never see the light of day again! Stoke the creative fire of ...

A few weeks ago, nearly all of us decided that we'd much rather date a techy guy than a poet. As commenter joliegraceput it, "Poets sometimes act tortured and pretentious." True, that my dear; ...

Dwayne had an excellent post earlier this week on the passing of the great Lucille Clifton. I think he basically said it all, but I'd like to add one personal note on what I took from Clifton's work.