NOÖ Journal's new fundraiser is more simple than peanut butter:

1) You donate $2.00
2) One of our crack team of award-winning poets writes you a brand-new bad poem.
3) We put $2.00 toward printing more free and good poetry  (and fiction and essays) in NOÖ.

It's a small donation with a beautiful receipt.

Here are a few of the poets we've coddled into our service:

--K. Silem Mohammad: Author of Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003) and A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004). His work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2004. Read new poetry at Squirrels in My Attic.

--Bryan Coffelt: His work has or will appear in NOÖ Journal, elimae, Snow Monkey, Juked and Opium Magazine.

--Tao Lin: Author of this emotion was a little e-book (Bear Parade, 2006) and You Are a Little Bit Happier than I Am (Action Books, 2006), winner of the Action Books Poetry Prize, BED (Melville House, 2007) and EEEEE EEE EEEE (Melville House, 2007).

Bad poems make excellent gifts:

1) Birthday gifts
2) Christmas gifts
3) Monday gifts
4) Tuesday gifts
5) Gifts-for-your-meter-reader
6) Gifts for people who are in space, which we hear is sad and boring.

In honor of Matt Jasper, a generous donor, we present as an exemple of our quality output the full & free chapbook entitled Matt Jasper: A Collection of Bad Poetry, featuring Alex Burford, Blake Butler, Jack Christian, Bryan Coffelt, Elisa Gabbert, Rachel B. Glaser, Tao Lin, and K. Silem Mohammad. Other examples:

light is good
--Bryan Coffelt

light,
rightly so
light gropes the interstate.
you
are lifting my spirits!

we read the collected poems
of the very brown carpet
with a severe gastric disorder.

basically, it's about redeeming yourself
and there are pictures.

Shit
--Tao Lin

Yesterday I shit the day before
yesterday's okra. Today I will shit
last night's okra.
Tomorrow I will shit this morning's smoothie.
My to-do list is giant today.
I feel a little excited.
On Saturday a photographer is coming
from New York City to photograph me
shitting. Just kidding. Not shitting.
Probably standing by a tree.

To donate online click below, and optionally include in your note the following:

--1) Any relevant poem information (poem subject, dedication, form, etc.)
--2) Your preferred poet from the list above

We will email your bad poem to the email address you specify in your transaction.
It will arrive as a small PDF so you can print it, share it, crinkle it and sprinkle it as though it were salt, etc.

Click below to donate for your bad poem! Thank you for helping free literature!