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Litblog Roundup 21
Another important conceptual writer is accused of racially charged appropriation. Here’s what happened.
Flarf and the prospect of open source poetry
Before we had a word for copypasta , there was a poetics of copypasta. Flarf was invented to explore the possibilities of digital text, copying, pasting, collaborating, and changing, to create new writings.
Approaches to the New Poetics
Ron Silliman is afraid of getting into trouble for saying it, but he done said it anyhow. He sees some interesting parallels between the new poetry today and the poetry that was new in the 1950’s . In addition to those parallels, he is happy to see that there are actually different approaches to new modes of poetry, for a change.