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The best of the worst of poetry

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is that our new edition I sense coming...

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what is your poetry guilty pleasure?

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OPEN POETRY CALL

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit your bad poetry to Tay Bridge Press

Give us the awkward language, weird subjects, and thoughts that maybe should have stayed inside thoughts but we want to read them anyway!

Submit!

What We Want: Send us your bad poetry! Send us bad poems of any kind–whether from early in your career when you were just starting out or re

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LAST CHANCE SUBMISSION CALL

Submissions close May 1st, so make sure to get your poetry in by then!

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What poems are we looking for

Do you have poetry that breaks the rules?

That is inspired by a piece of gum that looked weirdly like your ex in middle school?

That makes fun of norms or even itself?

If so, it might finds its home at Tay Bridge Press!

For more information: https://taybridgepress.wordpress.com/submit/

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This is your midnight reminder to submit your amazingly bad poetry to Tay Bridge Press!

For more information: https://taybridgepress.wordpress.com/submit/

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Submissions are still open!

Thank you to everyone who has already submitted for our Summer 2026 Edition!

We are still open until May 1st and submitting your poetry is completely free!!

For more information and to send us your poem click here:https://taybridgepress.wordpress.com/submit/

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what is the strangest place you have found poetry inspiration in?

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Stagnant Rewards

day by day we count the costs and reach stretching eager hopeful for prizes that stay beyond our grasp straining anxious needful feeling the weight grow heavy on our backs fraying desperate mistrustful struggling for relief lying just out of reach

Stagnant Rewards

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Send us your poetry!

Your favorite bad poetry magazine is back again looking for your teenage heartbreak, humor so bad your dad would cringe, and similes you have to be upside down to understand!

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The best of the worst of poetry

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What is your favorite spring poem?

In honor of it getting hotter (in the northern hemisphere) let us know what your favorite poem based on spring is! The more obnoxious ties to flowers, the weather, or pastel colors, the better!

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WE ARE OPEN!!

Did you know that Tay Bridge Press is open for your poetry submissions??

Well that's us and we are!!

Submit before May 1st to be considered for our Summer 2026 Edition

Submit!

What We Want: Send us your bad poetry! Send us bad poems of any kind–whether from early in your career when you were just starting out or re

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What is everyones best worst poem??

I can't believe it has already been a few days with our Spring 2026 edition out in the world!!

Does anyone have any poems that stood out to you so far? Ones that are best read the second time around??

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Our Spring Edition is Out NOW!!

Thank you to all our contributors, we cannot wait for you to read their amazingly terrible work!

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Just a few more days until you get to read our Spring 2026 Edition!

Here is a little teaser of the cover to bide you over until then

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Keep your eyes peeled for our spring edition