“In 10 years, the 30-odd people who wound up coming and going on the list published dozens of books and chapbooks, held a number of festivals in New York, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore and elsewhere, and put on high-profile readings at the Denver Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center and the Whitney (with our rivals and closest peers, the Conceptual Writers). Collections of flarf appeared in the online magazine, Jacket, and—scandalously—in Poetry magazine, our second and last appearance with the Conceptual Writers before their attempted hostile takeover. We were written about in numerous alt weekly papers, as well as in Poets & Writers and the Wall Street Journal. The BBC, Wired and NPR covered our activities—as well as the anger our very existence seemed to incite.”
Flarf
Bad Flarf Vs Bad Poems
Stan Apps reads some bad ass stuff in Poetry Magazine
Is this about flarf or is it about bad poetry? – you decide.
“I am fascinated by the latest issue of Poetry Magazine, which I picked up because I knew it included some Flarf poems, Conceptual Writing, and related materials. I was excited to get it, among other reasons, because it could be bought at Barnes & Nobles in Tampa FL, for cash. Imagine, buying poetry with an internet connection and a credit card!”
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Can Flarf Ever Be Taken Seriously?
Almost a decade after its creation, the experimental poetry movement Flarf—in which poets prowl the Internet using random word searches, e-mail the bizarre results to one another, then distill the newly found phrases into poems that are often as disturbing as they are hilarious—is showing signs of having cleared a spot among the ranks of legitimate art forms. Despite the group’s penchant for shocking content and outrageous titles (Sharon Mesmer’s “Annoying Diabetic Bitch,” for example, or Gary Sullivan’s “Grandmother’s Explosive Diarrhea”), many in the literary world are taking the poems seriously.
Via David Bircumshaw
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