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Free Verse: The Flarf Collective
News in Poetry This new-ish millennium has, however, provided at least one new literary movement: It has given us flarf, a form of poetry that takes its name from the title of a Gary Sullivan poem, "Flarf Balonacy Swingle," and takes its raw material from Google searches involving wildly different terms, like "anarchy + tuna melt" or "exquisite + corpse."

A poem is created by cutting and pasting words from the search results page (none of the website links are followed). The flarf aesthetic is irreverent, inappropriate, and deliberately discomforting. At least one literature professor has been denied tenure for supporting it. It is a poetry of divining from the entrails of the world wide web, preserving all the slang and messy syntax of its source material, and it is coming to Minneapolis...

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Submitted by staff on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (04:40:33) (111 reads)

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