81. Flarf

Poetry lovers are either gonna love or hate this one, because Seth takes Kyle and Emily on a journey through the meaning and origin of the word flarf.

Our hosts travel back to the early 00s internet, and see the emergence of a rather avant garde form of poetry. They read a poem or two from this new genre, talk about how Google plays into their creation, and discuss the divisive impact these poems had on the larger poetry community.

But flarf also leads our hosts into asking the BIG questions. What really is art? What makes good or bad writing? Does the author matter? They also link flarf poetry to other works of modernism and surrealism, and see how it contrasts to more process oriented writing.