Bad Lineage is an independent journal created in 2025 by a poetry student and a computer programmer who wanted another way to share writing and art that they like and to which they find themselves beholden. We also enjoy poking fun at the incomprehensible and horrifying notion of literary heritage. Bad Lineage is published three times a year in print and online.
Bad Lineage’s logo comes from Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1558-ish 12 Proverbs. Beneath the logo’s image in the original work, Bruegel has written: “Whatever I do is in vain. I piss on the moon.” 12 Proverbs is on display at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp.