I did it. I found the worst poem in the world.

On aestheticising compliance and calling it love

I spent three years at Oxford poring over medieval manuscripts. I have read a lot of terrible poetry, and I don’t say this lightly: this widely-shared poem by Joseph Fasano -- a Harvard-educated, prize-winning poet with eight books and a Penguin Random House deal — is the worst poem ever written: For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.…

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