The Tortured Poets Department

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

We're snatching wigs in this one! The queens get real about bad poetry.
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NOTES
Watch the official lyric video for "But Daddy I Love Him" and read this article about what the pub The Black Dog (the titular pub from the Taylor Swift Song) s like.
Read Mona van Dun's minimalist sonnet "Closure" here.
If you hate your eyeballs and poetry, go read Helen Steiner Rice's "It Takes the Bitter and the Sweet" and her foundation's website.

The article Aaron talks about is Vice's "Bad Poetry is Everywhere," which quotes Yasmin Belkhyr. It includes links to the receipts about the poet we note has been alleged to have plagiarized--and here's the Daily Beast article about that poet too.
Javier O. Huerta in an essay for the Poetry Foundation named a few good bad poems, including Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca"

Here is the first sonnet from Sonnets From the Portuguese.
Read Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar"
Marie Howe's "What the Living Do" is the title poem from her 2nd collection. You can watch her read the poem here.