If you’ve ever wanted the chance to show off your bad poetry, here’s your chance. Technically the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest isn’t about bad poetry, per se. The actual idea is to have fun at the expense of those vanity poetry contests, where aspiring poets are made to shill out bunches of monies in order to submit their poems and get cheap anthology copies, CDs, chintzy plaques/medallions, or whatever these scammy (you like that word?) contest organizers can come up with.
So, if you’ve ever submitted a poem to such a contest that ends up accepting everything you and all of Miss Myrtle’s fifth grade class sent in, and then lauded it all as total genius, the Wergle Flomp contest is a way to redeem that entry. There are three easy steps.
1. Find a vanity poetry contest. (Here are their examples.)
2. Make up a deliberately absurd, strange, laugh-out-loud humor poem. (More examples.)
3. Submit your parody poem to a vanity contest as a joke.
Then submit this same poem to Wergle Flomp. There’s no fee, but there are cash prizes–almost $4k worth. Nothing to lose here, and you might have fun doing it.
I see that smile.