Yes

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  by Scott Scherr

  Created on: April 10, 2008

  What is 'bad' poetry?

  Is it poetry that doesn't meet traditional requirements of rhyme and meter, verse

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  by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

  Created on: April 10, 2008   Last Updated: December 04, 2008

  Poetry Sings, However Off Key.

  It may not appeal to the literary world, the snob, the arrogant perfectionist,

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  by Karen Goodright

  Created on: December 07, 2008

  Yes, Virginia, there really is bad poetry.

  Really, REALLY bad poetry, and it's freaking fantastic.

  Have

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  by Barbara Guess

  Created on: September 07, 2008   Last Updated: July 23, 2009

  Bad poetry has value even if it is only the satisfaction that the poet feels when writing it. Sometimes

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  by Angela S. Young

  Created on: July 04, 2007   Last Updated: January 31, 2009

  No one can deem poetry, a form of written art, invaluable when even one person finds value in it. Often

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  by Megan Risley

  Created on: February 19, 2009

  This question really just raises a lot more questions: Who decides what "bad" poetry is? This is one

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  by Kim Robinson

  Created on: November 21, 2007

  IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

  Poetry is like beauty; it's in the eye of the beholder. Not even the experts,

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  by Dr. G. A. Anderson

  Created on: August 26, 2007

  There is value in all poetry, even those works we do not like or understand. Some works I have studied

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  by Effie Moore Salem

  Created on: July 11, 2007   Last Updated: June 17, 2008

  Bad poetry to one may be good poetry to another. And to a real poet, one that knows what goes into the

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  by Jake Dalton

  Created on: November 12, 2007

  "Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same." - T.S. Eliot

  Can 'bad' poetry

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  by Richard Higgs

  Created on: January 17, 2011

  If read critically, bad poetry can help poets to develop their critical eye. If a writer can identify

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  by Laura Leigh Fields

  Created on: February 11, 2008

  Who am I to decide whether or not a poem is bad? I find it difficult to judge someone else based on

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  by Robert Crotch

  Created on: August 25, 2008

  I'm not going to sit on the fence with this one, I just can't.
  Firstly, poetry, if honest, can never

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  by Rosemarie Quintal

  Created on: October 21, 2009

  There is no bad poetry. There are bad attitudes toward other peoples free speech poetic expressions.

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  by Stephy Jemmisparks

  Created on: September 07, 2008   Last Updated: November 14, 2009

  As a published poet myself, I would love to give my two cents worth of appraisal to this argument of

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  by Janice White

  Created on: November 01, 2008

  We go by the standards taught to us with educational guidelines in mind when we critique an artists

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  by June Asquith

  Created on: July 31, 2007   Last Updated: September 02, 2009

  "Along the wires, the electric message came, "He is no better, he is much the same". These lines by

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  by Nathan Breck

  Created on: July 24, 2007

  Bad poetry is of enormous value, possibly more than good poetry. Bad poetry tells us something more

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  by Abigail Phillips

  Created on: September 07, 2008

  First, to the issue of 'bad' poetry. I do not subscribe to the postmodernist view that there can be

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  by Neal Whitman

  Created on: September 01, 2009   Last Updated: September 02, 2009

  "It's Good to Be Bad"

  Yes, we have no bananas. And, yes, it is good to be bad for one good reason: CONNOISSEURSHIP.