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The flarf poetry movement is the first poet of the 21st century according to wikepedia.

I first heard about at the New Writing Series. I think I’ve said that before. According to wikepedia poet Gary Sullivan had made up the term in late 2000 when he submitted deliberately bad poems to a poetry contest to Poetry.com, to test its supposed standards for excellence. (wikepedia)

Old School Flarf is also marked by a certain distinctive tonal dialect. In Rodney Koeneke’s first reading, he initially droned out words like they were being played over a video in slow motion. This was the first time I saw a poet draw out words like that, and I think the audience was just as baffled as I was.

Poets do indeed use the Google and other search engines for ideas for their poems, but there are no limitations I guess as poets pose their own ideas for flarf nonsense.

Most flarf poems are also intentionally offensive and sound like gibberish or nonsense but to me I think it’s interesting. I’m not sure how to find these search phrases though, I need to do some more research first.