Flarf Poetry

Flarf poetry was an avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century, its name coined by poet Gary Sullivan, who also wrote and published the earliest Flarf poems. Its first practitioners worked in loose collaboration on an email mailing list, rejecting conventional standards of quality to explore subject matter and tonality not typically considered appropriate for poetry; one of their central methods, invented by Drew Gardner, was to mine the internet with odd search terms and distill the results into humorous or disturbing poems and other texts. Pioneers of the movement included Jordan Davis, Katie Degentesh, Nada Gordon, K. Silem Mohammad and Sullivan himself, among others.