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Gary Sullivan performs.

This is the poem that Gary Sullivan, the inventor of Flarf poetry, first submitted to Poetry.com’s contest.  We’ll be updating our History of Poegles to include this image and further information about Sullivan and his compatriots.

 

Gary Sullivan, inventor of Flarf, has a great history of Flarf in Brooklyn Rail. We commend it to you.

“Time will tell if the end of the Bush Era will render irony and cynicism obsolete. Rod Smith, who sprinkled a few Flarfs into his latest collection, Deed (Iowa, 2008), will publish a Flarf anthology in late 2009 through his own Edge Books. Meanwhile, the popular Flarf list search combo this week is ‘Obama’ + ‘unicorns.’”

From Black Spring: Questions for Flarf.  Thanks Steve Tills.

Also Flarf Fixie, via Ron Silliman’s blog.