- Pompousness or pretentiousness
- Trying too hard
- Technical errors
- Victimized by rhyme
- Unintentionally humorous
- Devoid of ideas
- Expresses a single idea that repeats too often
- At least one terrible idea
- Misguided agenda
- Misalignment with the reader
This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
Bad Poetry Challenge
I'm on a challenge to write a truly terrible poem, inspired by Jacke Wilson of The History of Literature Podcast. His 62nd episode titled "Bad Poetry" is well worth a listen. Below are his 10 indicators of bad poetry. Trees by Joyce Kilmer scored an 8.5 by Mr. Wilson. My goal is to beat that which shall be no easy task.
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