National Poetry Month Public Service Overview April 8, 2013: As a public service, since it’s National Poetry Month, and since there seems to be a considerable deficit of awareness about what contemporary poetry is all about, I thought I’d provide a brief overview of the different types and brands out there right now. This, I hope, will save the curious but lazy the trouble of having to do a whole [...] by K. Silem Mohammad

What Was Flarf?: Jordan Davis Reviews Diana Hamilton’s Okay, Okay March 26, 2013: Most poets need an income. Some of us teach or are freelance copywriters. Some of us work for nonprofits or consulting companies. Most of us, at some point, have worked in a cubicle, and all of us have to develop methods for creating time to write. We regularly recommend Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems to young poets who have recently graduated [...] by Harriet Staff

Flarf in the Wall Street Journal May 25, 2010: The Wall Street Journal finds the the fact that "flarf" appeared last year in Poetry magazine a sign that "Google-Inspired Verse Gains Respect." "Flarf is a hip, digital reaction to the kind of boring, genteel poetry" popular with everyday readers, says Marjorie Perloff, a poetry critic and professor emeritus of English at Stanford [...] by Harriet Staff

Flarf is Officially Dead & Stop Laughing at ‘Cock’! January 20, 2010: So some claim that flarf died after Dan Hoy's essay "The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet." Others claim flarf suffered a "mob attack" during the controversy surrounding Michael Magee's poem "Their Glittering Asian Guys are Gay." Others [...] by Craig Santos Perez

Flarf and Conceptual Writing in Poetry Magazine July 1, 2009: An introduction to the 21st Century's most controversial poetry movements. From the July/August 2009 Issue of Poetry Magazine by Kenneth Goldsmith Start making sense. Disjunction is dead. The fragment, which ruled poetry for the past one hundred years, has left the building. Subjectivity, emotion, the body, and desire, as expressed in [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith