I Read the Bachelorette Winner's Book of 'Poetry' So You Don't Have To

The Bachelorette is a television show in which they lock a rag-tag band of mostly white hotties in a house and force them to compete over the heart of a woman. To do so, the captive hotties utilize muscles, tongue-kissing, and generic combinations of the phrases "looking for a real relationship," "family really…
Man Accused Of Sending Employee Illustrated, Laminated Erotic Poems
A supervisor at a white-shoe law firm accused of sexually harassing one of his employees allegedly sent the woman laminated, illustrated erotic poems with lines like, “I enjoy you so. Your thick legs and all of the voluptuous plumpness that accents your womanhood."
New Jersey Mayor Wrote Hilariously Unromantic Poetry to Mistress
East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser is currently the subject of a discrimination suit that stems from a long-term extramarital affair he was having with his research assistant. But things weren't always so bleak for the high-minded Bowser. During the affair, he would write the assistant, Corletta Hicks, romantic poetry…
Internet Assholes Troll Bay Area Poet By Putting Up Her Video, Titling It ‘Big Girl Does Poem On Dick!'
Dear Vast Majority of Commenters on This Video at WorldStarHipHop.com and everyone else like you,
Journaling About Your Breakup Just Makes It Even Worse
Take that, therapists: journaling after a breakup makes it harder to move on, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Arizona thought that particularly "ruminative" patients could benefit from writing out all of their feelings in explicit detail like a 14-year-old LiveJournal poet. (More on those…
How Long Can You Listen to this Men's Rights Anthem Before You Tear Your Ears Off?
God, you guys, you know what sucks? How men are responsible for all human achievement (except, uh, actually making other humans) and women just shit all over them. But now, thankfully, the Men's Rights movement has found a musical prophet fit to deliver the message that men are fed up with the rampant abuse from the…
New Poems From Shel Silverstein
A new book by Shel Silverstein has been released posthumously called Every Thing On It and is in book stores today! The book, containing 145 poems, was created though the efforts of editor Toni Markiet and the family of the deceased poet, in hopes of staying true to Silverstein's aesthetic and keeping it authentic.
Ted Hughes' Lost Poem On Sylvia Plath's Suicide Unveiled
Today New Statesman published "Last Letter," a previously unseen Ted Hughes poem about the three days before Sylvia Plath's suicide. Drafts of the poem, which begins, "What happened that night? Your final night," were found in the British Library's archive.
Tim Burton's Ode To Johnny Depp
Spotted in Roddy McDowell's book Double Exposure, Take Three: A poem by Tim Burton titled "Johnny Depp." It was published in 1992, yet seems to foreshadow their 1999 collaboration on Sleepy Hollow. (Click for full image.)
Literary Critic Hates Vaginas, "Ghetto Volume"
People are obviously reading too much these days. That must be why one critic felt the need to list the 15 writers (9 of them women) we should all stop reading right now.
Awesome Saudi Poet Lambastes Clerics On State-Run TV
Hissa Hilal, a Saudi housewife and a contestant in an American-Idol-style poetry competition, read an incendiary 15-verse poem that criticized clerics who issue ever-more-restrictive fatwas, and referred to clerics as monsters "wearing death as a robe, cinched with a belt."
Poetic Justice: Our Commenters Respond To Bro-etry
Earlier today, we read a poem by a bro named "Andy," who felt he truly understood the "trouble with women." I asked our commenters to respond to him with their own poems, and, of course, they came through:
Bro-etry: A Man Tells Us How To Fix Our Lives In Verse
The Times of London has a somewhat irritating series titled "The Trouble With Women," which gives a platform to a new dude each week so he can complain about the lady-folk. This week, we have a "poet" named Andy.
Poet Lucille Clifton Dies At 73
National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton has died at the age of 73. Says her sister: "Everything touched her. Everyone mattered to her. She was such a loving person." Here, Clifton reads her poem, "Homage To My Hips." [BuffaloNews]
