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This new-ish millennium has, however, provided at least one new literary movement: It has given us flarf, a form of poetry that takes its name from the title of a Gary Sullivan poem, "Flarf Balonacy Swingle," and takes its raw material from Google searches involving wildly different terms, like "anarchy + tuna melt" or "exquisite + corpse."

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This omits, for instance, "flarf" poetry composed through google interactions with the web as source material, or oral performances based on computational texts. — PoetryFoundation.org
This new-ish millennium has, however, provided at least one new literary movement: It has given us flarf, a form of poetry that takes its name from the title of a Gary Sullivan poem, "Flarf Balonacy Swingle," and takes its raw material from Google searches involving wildly different terms, like "anarchy + tuna melt" or "exquisite + corpse." — GotPoetry.com News
The flarf aesthetic is irreverent, inappropriate, and deliberately discomforting. — GotPoetry.com News
Surprised also that the final thirty seconds of this explication of flarf and conceptual writing sounds exactly like (almost word for word) how Marc Bolan thought about glam-rock -- 35+ years ago. — The Suburban Ecstasies
Creative writing selections include a short story by Dan Pope, a recipe from Chef Mario Batali (accompanied by a quartet of haikus inspired by seasonal cooking) and Sharon Mesmer's "flarf" poems culled from Google searches. — Cool Hunting