Season 7

April 14, 2025

Graceful & Awkward (w/ Emily)

The two titles combined kind of of speak for themselves, when describing the topics of these poems. Dave and Aaron are graced with the presence of a friend who (having listened to the show before it was a show) finally took a...

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April 7, 2025

It's Surreal to be Hit Gently with a Rose (w/ Ariel Treece)

If ever you need to find bad poetry Ariel suggests long ago posts on the old social media sites. Even if you have deleted Live Journal and Myspace, don't worry you may have left something on the good old notes pages on Facebo...

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March 31, 2025

I could write... I want to tell...& Untitled #1 (w/Shaawan Francis Ke…

Shaawan brings three interesting poems to the podcast. With no real titles to work with, the hosts and guest sort through words from Shaawan's high school journals. Maybe he could have wrote a song... but he most definitely w...

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March 24, 2025

Asterisk, Etiologies, & Octave with Line from a Lullaby (w/Alina Ștef…

Alina Ștefănescu, brings three very different examples of "bad" poetry. One struggling with voice, another structure, and one context. Without Dave, Aaron and Alina work through these varying verses to see how ideas sometimes...

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March 17, 2025

Broken hearted and numb, Dark Skies, & Where I'm From (w/Risha Nicole)

Dave and Aaron and overjoyed to have another guest on the show! Risha brings poems from Jr. High that have been shared in classrooms, Watt pad, and Tumbler, but now have found there way to My Bad Poetry. How bad could they be...

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March 10, 2025

An Ode to Rage Bait

After a last minute change in plans, Aaron and Dave find themselves recording with only one hastily written poem prepared to share. Working with what they've got, the show struggles along. What is a sonnet really? Are Reels r...

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Feb. 24, 2025

The Draft

Aaron and Dave try to keep the show light hearted as they dig into a high school assignment about the Vietnam War. Did a high school Aaron give the proper weight and respect to such a severe situation as the draft that effect...

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Feb. 10, 2025

What If? (w/ Amelia McCracken)

While this poem was already shared with the world way back in 2004, now some 21 years later Amelia brings this wonderful LiveJournal entry to Aaron and Dave for our dear listeners to hear. An emo work that asks the deep quest...

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Feb. 3, 2025

me

Probably should have stayed Off the show Even with a format to go by My oh my oh my.... Aaron found an old acrostic poem from an external hard drive. Dave seeks to destroy said hard drive and shares his newest hastily written...

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Jan. 27, 2025

How I Like My Coffee

For the first time in the shows history Dave's poem is in the hot seat. Without a "bad" poem on hand Dave and Aaron use Dave's weekly hastily written poem as fodder. This ode to "brown bean water" is chalk full of terms needi...

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Jan. 20, 2025

Ein Alptraum

What does one do when you run out of English poems? Aaron decided to dig up some old German poems from his high school German class. Did he just take his previous emo poetry from the Wolf Journal and translate it to German......

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Jan. 13, 2025

After The Silence Saga of My Youth

It's a new season, and Dave and Aaron return from their break with a return to the most talked about topic on the show. That topic being Silence...in that Aaron's previous self wrote 5 different poems about it over several ye...

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