The Onion on Poetry

Parnassus Staff The Onion may bill itself as “America’s Finest News Source” with a wink and a nudge, but, as with all good satire, its joke stories hold more than a grain of truth. There are cheap shots, to be sure, like “Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes to Vague Up Poem,” in which a poet says his work will “not be totally ready for publication until his 5-year-old nephew completes work on the third stanza.” But the spoof of bad “poetic... Read More