Bad Poetry series by Brian David Phillips This episode: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, published 1872. Please note, not really bad poetry, actually pretty damned awesome poetry, included here for the fun of it. Not really bad poetry . . . quite the opposite as this is my favorite poem in the English language . .…

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Bad Poetry series by Brian David Phillips This episode: A Tragedy by Theophilus Marzials, published 1874 This example of bad poetry is often ranked number one in bad poetry collections as the worst poem ever written in the English language . . . and yet it feels as if it would be very much at…

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Bad Poetry series by Brian David Phillips This episode: Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over Seven Thousand Pounds by James McIntrye, published 1866. This week, I am covering an introduction to poetry in my creative writing course at the university. Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I will be asking the…

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