(posted Feb. 18, 5:00 p.m.)- The Nicaragua Dispatch would like to congratulate Day Emon Hosklings for winning this year’s First Annual Bad Poetry Festival, with his tour de force, Mochilero, Mochilero (No. 5 on your scorecard, for those keeping score...

Welcome to Day 5 of the First Annual Nicaragua Dispatch Bad Poetry Festival, a celebration of the stinkiest stanzas our readers could produce. This is the final day of this internationally celebrated event. The winner will be announced Saturday, and...

Welcome to Day 4 of the First Annual Nicaragua Dispatch Bad Poetry Festival, a celebration of the stinkiest stanzas our readers could produce. The festival will run all week, with the winner announced on Saturday.  #13 Ode to Power and...

Welcome to Day 3 of the First Annual Nicaragua Dispatch Bad Poetry Festival, a celebration of the stinkiest stanzas our readers could produce. The festival will run all week, with the winner announced on Saturday. The contest is still open...

Welcome to Day 2 of the First Annual Nicaragua Dispatch Bad Poetry Festival, a celebration of the stinkiest stanzas our readers could produce. The festival will run all week, with the winner announced next Saturday. The contest is still open...

Welcome to Day 1 of the First Annual Nicaragua Dispatch Bad Poetry Festival, a celebration of the stinkiest stanzas our readers could produce. The festival will run all week, with the winner announced next Saturday. The contest is still open...

During the week of Feb. 13, Granada will once again assume its annual honorific role as the “international capital of poetry,” when 117 of the world’s most gifted men and women of the plume from 59 countries will flock and...