The algorithm-written poems were convincing enough to make judges think a human had written them. / Artificial Intelligence / Ai / Artificial Intelligence / Computing 4.26.18, 12:44 PM EDT by Dan ...

B ad poems never die, never really go away: The vigor of their badness preserves them.Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, drift and coil and tangle with ...

The passage appears to be employing irony and humor. It's ironic that the young woman and her husband, both of whom are described as writing bad poems, are engaged in a competition.