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 blame flarf’s untimely death on the timely publication of the flarf folio in Poetry Magazine. Some even say that flarf died when Gary Sullivan–one of its founders–cut his hand.
Despite all the drama, flarf managed to survive…until december 5, 2009, when flarf took its last gasp at the bowery poetry club in new york city. r.i.p. (rest in prosody).
who killed flarf, you might be asking? the answer will shock you! read below to see which member of flarf destroyed the movement.

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 whole units of plain English with normative syntax, has returned. But not in ways you would imagine . . .
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