West Texas A&M University will host its annual Bad Poetry Contest this Tuesday.

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 ...

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William Sieghart says he finds new poems while browsing in second-hand bookstores in the UK and online, as well as through recommendations. (Image of book via Pexels and of William Sieghart courtesy ...