I got honorable mention in a BIG poetry contest!

I remember learning about the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest in college and have sent them many a silly poem over the years. Maybe I have a weird sense of humor, but looking back, most of them were pretty bad—full of heavy-handed nursery rhyme-type stuff—and not funny.

But not this year, baby! I submitted “mx. potato head at the gender swap meet,” arguably one of my weirder ones, and it was named one of twelve honorable mentions—out of 5,060 entries they got for 2025. It turns out that writing good humor poetry is really fucking difficult! I’m glad I stuck with it, but there’s a reason I don’t bust out funny bangers often.

I’m delighted and got a kick out of reading the winners’ and other honorable mentions’ poems. Check us out if you need a chuckle!