Alina Ștefănescu, brings three very different examples of "bad" poetry. One struggling with voice, another structure, and one context. Without Dave, Aaron and Alina work through these varying verses to see how ideas sometimes rightly remain in the drafts folders for a later day or a note to something new.

My Bad Poetry Episode 7.9: "Asterisk, Etiologies, & Octave with Line from a Lullaby (w/Alina Ștefănescu)"

End Poem from a Real Poet: "Tonight as You Pace the Garden" by Alina Ștefănescu

Alina Ștefănescu is an essayist, educator, translator, poet, and short prose author born in Romania and lives in Alabama. Her published anthologies including Dor and the upcoming My Heresies can be found here. You can keep up with her and all her work through her social media or website: https://www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/

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