Featured Guest Episodes Episodes
Perched Rock, Flask of Salt (w/ Clem Flowers)
Clem kicks off the show with a poem that is nearly the opposite of a "cake poem." No missing title there. With the other two, Aaron and Dave may find themselves with more familiar styles yet still end up lost …
Thursday, Toil and Trouble (w/ Lori D'Angelo)
Lori joins the show to bring several poems about disappointing days. Running themes are dead end jobs, let downs, and meh moments shine through in these rough poems from her past. Aaron and Dave commiserate with the sentiment...
JEANS, Rain and umbrella, at my wedding (w/ Madeleine Corley)
Maddie makes a triumphant return to the show with three phenomenally different “bad” poems from a one and a half year span when she was graduating college. Aaron forgets about basic sentence structure making his critiques, q...
Dope Prowl (w/ Seth Perry)
Seth Perry brings a rap song from his short time as a rapper in the Vancouver scene of the early 00s. In hearing this artifact from time , Dave and Aaron find themselves in the presence of the one …
Unfinished Business, Bittersweet, Death. (w/nat raum)
Dave and Aaron are joined this week by the prolific nat raum! nat brings journal poems from highschool that are broad and vague at times, yet deeply ernest in the cringiest ways. Laugh along with us as nat shares their …
Orchids and Roses, Work of Art, ... (w/Megan McDermott)
Megan makes her triumphant return to the podcast with not 1, not 2,... but 4 "bad" poems from journals in the past. Each poem brings a different kind of bad, from the structural to the theological. Dave and Aaron struggle …
Windowless Room, Taos Court, & Algebraic Hymn (w/Adam Shaw)
This week co-host's Dave and Aaron find themselves talking to a person working in the Twin Cities, who has never been to the Twin Cities. And if that isn't a riddle enough, they have to try and figure out his …
The Seaman's Stray, Minotaur, & Almost (w/Jenny Qi)
After nearly two years of DMs to work out a time, the co-hosts of My Bad Poetry get to chat with Jenny Qi... and it was worth the wait! Jenny brings three poems from three distinct times in her life …
SONNET DCLXVII & Obfuscatory Exegesis (w Jay Parr)
Jay Parr brings their tinkerings with poetry to the show, demonstrating the fun of self referencial poems. While none of them would be considered high art... they really aren't trying to be. A string of bad haiku's bring it h...
HftRR & Dimestore Shaman (w/ Lasara Firefox Allen)
Lasara Firefox Allen brings work from their April 30 in 30 project (30 poems written in 30 days). These hastily written poems may blow most of the stuff Aaron and Dave brings to the show out of the water in …
Hello Best Wishes, (w/william erickson)
To say this experience was surreal would be... partially true? william erickson brings some bad poems from an old chapbook manuscript. Three poems confuse and bewilder Dave and Aaron, but Will's closing poem brings it all ful...
Sunday 11:30 Monday Eternity & Oncology (w/ Kellie Scott-Reed)
Kellie Scott-Reed brings a whole lot of laughter and joy to the show, even when her poems were less than happy. An aversion to ernesty in her old poetry leads to some strange twists and turns of phrases, and Aaron …
A Love's Remembrance (w/ Michael VanCalbergh)
Michael VanCalbergh returns for maybe our longest episode to date. He brings with him a Sonnet Crown that fails to reach the 7 poem goal intentionally... yet it feels far more like a mercy. Dave was out sick for this …
Popular, Snows of Tears, & Autumn's Vow (w/Phil Goldstein)
Aaron and Dave return for Season Six of My Bad Poetry without the Wolf Journal to guide their discussions. So they bring in more friends! Phil Goldstein brings his Jr. High and High School works salvaged from an old computer....
One Calculus & The Only Island (w/ Richard Blanco)
Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco comes on the show to bring his less than stellar work. From "Emily’s Recurring Dream of a Failed Bridge" which was too long for the show title that is full of "—" in honor of …