The controversial poetry movement Flarf began in 2001 as a small e-mail list composed of writers dedicated to the creation of poems using un-poetic language, often with the aid of Internet search engines (a practice sometimes called “Google-sculpting”). The Flarf Collective is now 30 members strong, with participants scattered across the United States and Europe. Join us for a special Free Verse Evening of Flarf as four of these poetry provocateurs—Nada Gordon, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammed, and Gary Sullivan—share their unique writing procedures.

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