Thirty-Two Titles for Bad Poems
- Epistle to the Guggenheim Foundation
- Everyone Was Chill
- Sincere Voyeurism
- Ode to the West Wing
- Why Women Matter
- At the Grave of Mel Gibson
- Ode to My Vacuum Cleaner
- Ferns
- Hate Speech
- Chugging Ersters to Chincoteague
- Bad Hair Day
- 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
- The Voice in the Coffin
- Iconic Landmarks of Germany
- Self-Portrait in a Side-View Mirror
- The Rubber Band That Lost Its Elasticity
- Of High School and Heartbreak
- Debbie Downer Doubles Down
- Why I Am Not an Astronaut
- Wife Studies
- A Harmonica for Monica
- The Love Song of William Jefferson Clinton
- The Crime of the Ancient Mariner
- One Fart
- The Wizardry of Ozymandias
- An Elegy for the U.S. Constitution
- Why “Nothing” Matters
- The Revolt of the Pronouns
- Parasite Lost
- Vowel Movements
- Sullen Weedy Lakes
- Gone with the Window Washer
— David Lehman
Runner-up: “My First Backpack.”
Note: The magazine 32 Poems devotes its back cover to lists consisting of 32 items. My "Thirty-Two Titles for Bad Poems" appeared in the back cover of the Spring / Summer 2017 issue. — DL