I'm a "published" poet. The quotes are to qualify that this dubious honor was bestowed by the literary journal from my alma mater. While I was on the editing staff. Full disclosure - you didn't get to vote on your own work, so it wasn't completely self-serving.
This being said, I don't think I'm a good poet. The nice thing about poetry is that it's very hard to truly call any poem really bad. It's more a matter of taste.