Mark your calendars and lower your literary standards: August 18th is National Bad Poetry Day, a holiday that celebrates the messy, cringey, deeply confusing art of really, really bad verse. This is ...

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 ...

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.

Breaking news, everyone. The hashtag #badpoetryday is currently trending on Twitter, and this is important because it means the world is finally paying attention to poets, and a world that pays ...

The critic Harold Bloom once declared that former President Jimmy Carter, the author of a book of verse titled Always a Reckoning, was “literally the worst poet in the United States.” Bloom wisely ...

Inside the spacious lecture hall of 309 Havemeyer last Thursday night, a crowd of around 70 people—mostly students, though a few professors and even one or two married couples from outside the school ...

When I was in seventh grade, I filled up pages and pages of notebook paper with teen angst—how misunderstood I was, the color of my crush’s eyes (green, for the record), and how I dreamed of being ...