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B Is for Bad Poetry
B Is for Bad Poetry | Pamela August Russell
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Forget Shakespeare. Don’t count on Donne. Shelley and Keats: banished! And there’s absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest of us--bad poetry! Pamela Russell’s unexalted (but thoroughly hysterical) poems mock, chide, accuse, tease, joke, undermine, point, and laugh at the world around us--and at anything that takes itself too seriously. Her non-canonical oeuvre includes: Tea For Two (A Tragedy); Nietzsche And The Ice-Cream Truck; Capitalism Can Fall Not Like I Fell For You; Inappropriately Touched By An Angel; Love Is Like A Toilet Bowl; and many more. Who knew bad poetry could be so good!
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rachelm
B Is for Bad Poetry | Pamela August Russell
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#Littens, I need your help celebrating #nationalpoetrymonth! We're going to celebrate by making a hive-mind found poem. Dig through your old journals and word documents and find the funniest, best/worst lines you've got.

Post them here, as a comment on the blog, or in a Litsy post with the hashtag #badpoem by 4/7 to be part. Feel free to share!

I'm going to randomize the lines and see what we get!

My bad lines: http://tinyurl.com/m7tydep

rachelm By the way, this is not April fools. I'm definitely doing this! 8y
LeahBergen "You say our love can never be, I take that answer graciously" -and then a little further along in this stellar ode I wrote in the midst of 13-year-old angst - "If all that glitters isn't gold, must this story be retold". ?? That guy should count himself lucky that he escaped my overwrought clutches. ??? 8y
rachelm @LeahBergen loooove! 😂😂the glitters and gold one is 💯 8y
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Zelma I love this and agree that @LeahBergen 's glitter and gold line is amazing! 😆 in the spirit of creativity, I will post something from my slam poetry from college. 😳😉 (edited) 8y
rachelm @Zelma yes! 🙌🙌 8y
LeahBergen @Zelma 😂 Yes, do! But please don't inspire me to share any more of my pubescent verse. 😉 8y
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Redwritinghood
B Is for Bad Poetry | Pamela August Russell
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#funfridayphoto freestyle! My husband blames me for these huge stacks of books beside our bed. I say, "No, not me! Blame it on Litsy instead."

Liberty They work as insulation when you stack them like that! 8y
Redwritinghood @Liberty Good point! Next time I can tell him that I'm just trying to help save on heating bills. Thanks 8y
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