Comments on: “Crack Monkeys,” “wangster gangsta jew,” & Other Bad Poems

By: Haley Wulfman

Haley Wulfman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:03:37 +0000

Agree! Love the bad poetry. However, did have to beg and plead with poetry.com to remove some really horrifying garble I submitted when I was thirteen, should a google search ever reveal it under my name. Won’t offer that up for your consideration!
Perhaps, a poet who writes in neglect of the ‘rules’ defines a category of his own, a type–that which is NOT good, by comparison–and thus can turn us on to what we deem ‘valuable’ or ‘invaluable’.

Love reading your stuff, Jules!

By: JK Evanczuk

JK Evanczuk — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:53:00 +0000

I’m so glad I’m not the only one loving bad poetry. And YES–”B is for Bad Poetry” is a real book. [link here]

By: Mike Arnzen

Mike Arnzen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:14:04 +0000

I love the bad poetry and other ‘eflarfium’! THANK YOU for turning me on to these sites, which I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise (and would continue to write and publish myself, unaware!).

Is that book cover graphic from a real book?

By: JK Evanczuk

JK Evanczuk — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:50:30 +0000

I totally agree. It’ll come in style some day, eventually. It’ll be the new Twitterature.

By: Lauri

Lauri — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:56:41 +0000

Tanya, I thought you wrote you lost your flies. I was very intrigued by that, a bit disappointed when I realised it was only your files. (though sorry about that)
I have a feeling bad poetry may just need to sit it out until the right time comes around and it becomes good without any edits.

By: Tanya Paperny

Tanya Paperny — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:43:18 +0000

The first one is sort of a limerick, no?

I have written a ton of bad poetry, mostly as an emo teenager, but when I recently lost a bunch of my files due to a hard drive failure, I lost a lot of it! Not sure if that’s a bad thing or a good thing…

Also, the Youtube comments or e.e. cummings list is BRILLIANT.

By: ali

ali — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:06:54 +0000

I think this is wickedly funny. And, I agree. I’m not sure with what exactly . . . but, err . . . it’s funny. So there.