The Best of the Worst
Bwog presents the winners of the Philolexian Society’s 24th Annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest. We hear it was positively painful to your ears.
Winner: “Balloon Boy by Philip Glass” by Edward Rueda (CC’05), with Everett Patterson (CC’06), 2009 Kilmer Laureate
1st Runner-Up: “Ballad of the Frozen Heart” by Laura Baur-Jaronowski (CC’06)
2nd Runner-Up: “Hamilton and Madison” by Alec Webley (SAS’11, UPenn)
Dishonorable Mention: “Stalker, a Love Poem” by Marley Weiner (BC’10)
Dishonorable Mention: “Tubular” by Samantha Kuperberg (BC’10)
Dishonorable Mention: “Chinese Teashop Rap” and “Crime and Punishment Rap” by Dexter Thompson-Pomeroy (CC’12)
Dishonorable Mention: Untitled math sonnets by Adam Levine (GSAS)
Dishonorable Mention: “If God, Then: Newark, New Jersey. Or: Up, Up, Down, Right, Left, Dog Poop. Or: God/Jay Michaelson: The Antichrist?” by Michal Richardson (BC’06)
The texts, audio clips, pictures, and even a video of the winner, will all be posted on Phlog in the next couple days. Check regularly for updates!
Tags: bad poetry contest, philolexian society
25 November 2009 @ 12:40 PM · 2 comments
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Adam Levine? As in, “This love has taken its toll on me/she said goodbye too many times before” Adam Levine?
This one’s a PHD student in math, and probably not a pop star by night.
Probably.