POETRY IS SO BORING

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Throwing more money into it why not touching movie me
up for another ten dollars more I could lose aggrieved
everything you said you said backwards you were scared
I know we were all asthmatic we farted even cocktail dress
begged bothering I wondered about drying lines you too

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SPD's AWP BAD POEM CONTEST

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SPD's AWP Bad Poem Contest

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WIN AN SPD BOOK!!!!

Even if you weren't at the AWP in Chicago, you can win an SPD book in our...

AWP BAD POEM CONTEST

You may think it’s easy to write a bad poem, but is it really? How bad can you be?

SPD will award the SPD book of your choice (up to $30) for the worst poem in each category. Shipping included.

Please select from one of the categories below and write the worst poem you can. Send to laura (at) spdbooksdotorg. Be sure to indicate the category the poem belongs to, and also include your name, email, and address.

Worst haiku
Worst Language poem
Worst workshop poem
Worst poem mentioning your mother
Worst sonnet
Worst poem intended to lead to sex
Worst poem using the words rainbow, mist, luminous, crystal, and anemone
Worst poem using the word capitalism
Worst Flarf poem (Complexly, this poem needs to be good.)
Worst poem using chance operations
Worst postmodern lyric
Worst New Formalist poem

Also, please tell us if you would rather not have your bad poem published on SPD’s blog.

At least one winner will be selected in each category. Contest ends February 20, 2009. Winners will be announced soon after. Poems will be judged by bad poetry experts on the SPD staff.

2009-01-17T10:32:00.000-08:00

My cashier was Nick B.

1. VEGAN TRAIL MIX COOKIE
2. TJ NTRL BROWN COFFEE FILTER #4
3. GOAT CHEESE /WALNUT SALAD
4. SALAD NICOISE REDUCED FAT
5. TRADER JOE'S BUTTER SHORTBREAD
6. YOGURT MEDITERRANEAN STYLE
7. STEAMED LENTILS
8. CHIPS VEGETABLE ROOT TJ'S
9. PITA CHIPS MULTIGRAIN
10. ROASTED VEG ENCHILADA
11. ROASTED VEG ENCHILADA
12. ZEN FIBER BLUEBERRY MUFFIN
13. ZEN FIBER BLUEBERRY MUFFIN
14. CEREAL BARS STRAWBERRY
15. CEREAL BARS BLUEBERRY
16. SAVORY BAKED ORGANIC TOFU
17. SAVORY BAKED ORGANIC TOFU
18. STEAMED BABY BEETS
19. DIP CILANTRO ROASTED PECAN
20. BRUSSEL SPROUTS
21. HONEY CLOVER SQUEEZE BEAR
22. SPICE CRUSHED RED CHILE PEPPER
23. FIRE ROASTED RED PEPPERS
24. FIBER BARS GNU PEANUT BUTTER
25. FIBER BARS GNU PEANUT BUTTER
26. FIBER BARS GNU PEANUT BUTTER
27. FIBER BARS GNU ORANGE CRANBERRY
28. FIBER BARS GNU ORANGE CRANBERRY
29. FIBER BARS GNU ORANGE CRANBERRY

Forgot: Peppercorns.

SPD's End of Capitalism Sale

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Exact Change
Potes & Poets
FC2
Dalkey Archive
Green Candy
Headpress
QUA Books
Sheep Meadow Press
North Carolina Wesleyan
Wings Press
Duration Press Chapbooks
New Mouth from the Dirty South
William Burroughs/Expanded Media
Assorted Poetry & Magazines
Assorted Nonfiction

2008-11-29T19:27:00.000-08:00

I was looking for an eyeball hatred, and then I found an eyeball hatred
and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

How to get to Phoenix?

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SPD WINNERS

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Dugin, Fama, McQuillian, and Glass Clean Up

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Françoise Hardy

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Ten Reasons You Should Ignore Exit Polls

SPD'S 'MAKE US FAMOUS' CONTEST

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"but then Rob hooked me up with supper and small press distribution"

Sharon Mesmer
from "Fine Hormoney Bitch," in Annoying Diabetic Bitch

John Sakkis and Tetra Balestri saying it loud and saying it proud!

SUBMIT YOUR POEM THAT SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE INCLUDES SPD'S NAME (SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION) AND GET A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE SPD BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE!

Guidelines and details here.

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full documentary available at 12:00 p.m. eastern

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Issue 8 also includes the work of:

Robert Archambeau
María Baranda and Joshua Edwards
Blake Butler
Amina Cain
Vernon Frazer
Emily Hunt
John Leon
Josh Maday
Doug Robinson
Kate Schapira
Mike Schorsch
Mark Tursi" />

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That's it: I'm tearing my manuscript Vatted Brain into shreds.

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One of the problems with poetry is the word poetry.

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Small Press Distribution
NEWsite
NEWblog

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What's good for the goose wriggles under the bad screaming. Serif on the page, blinking all told kick me.

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I'm amplifying my low voltage.

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It stopped evolving and started mutating.

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Banes say: Rename School of Quietude School of Frankie Avalon.

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Here to thee wolf, spare my sheep;
Here to thee fox, spare my lambs;
Here to thee eagle, spare my goats;
Here to thee raven, spare my kids;
Here to thee marten, spare my fowls;
Here to thee harrier, spare my chickens.

2007-09-14T00:15:00.000-07:00

I've accepted a commission from the Omnicon Group to devise a six-week initiation program for avant-garde and experimental poetry (AGEP).

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I had some poetry, and I put it in my hair.

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I am against poetry.

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Boredom remains high, but Charles Simic is younger than Donald Hall.

Whoop di diddley.

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Clutter!

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Really, I don't know why more normal people—just a few—don't read poetry.

This makes poetry steadfastly boring.

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I haven't been posting here, because I'm so bored.

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Tedious.

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"And I, her husband, contradict your Banes."

2007-06-27T18:28:00.001-07:00

Tinmen always see scarecrows and lions.

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Shepherd, lead me!

American Poetries

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Literary production is shaped by conditions of power. Bell!

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Tools ≠ rules.

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Your doses of taboo are not strong enough.

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A boring man.

2007-06-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

I only became aware post-this that Amiri Baraka had written an essay called "Why Most Poetry is so Boring, Again." My lawyer advises me, now that I know of it, that I don't read it, lest some influence inter and a lawsuit finds it. Really: I'm too lazy to find it and read it.

And, for the lighthearted, this blog is about all poetry.

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The most exciting and satisfying anthology I’ve acquired in the past month

How giggleful is that?

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Mean.

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Dreadful.

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