STAY TUNED FOR TOMORROW'S POST

In the meantime, here is the very first "flarf"
poem.

KASEY: Flarf came about a couple of years ago
when Gary Sullivan submitted a deliberately
bad poem to Poetry.com, one of those vanity companies
that lures the unsuspecting with lavish praise
of their poetry and then offers to "publish" it
for an exorbitant fee. Theorizing that no submission,
no matter how heinous, would ever be treated with
anything other than solicitous fawning, he sent in
a poem titled "Mm-hmm":

"Mm-hmm"

Yeah, mm-hmm, it's true
big birds make
big doo! I got fire inside
my "huppa"-chimp(TM)
gonna be agreessive, greasy aw yeah god
wanna DOOT! DOOT!
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft! hey!
oooh yeah baby gonna shake & bake then take
AWWWWWL your monee, honee (tee hee)
uggah duggah buggah biggah buggah muggah
hey! hey! you stoopid Mick! get
off the paddy field and git
me some chocolate Quik
put a Q-tip in it and stir it up sick
pocka-mocka-chocka-locka-DING DONG
fuck! shit! piss! oh it's so sad that
syndrome what's it called tourette's
make me HAI-EE! shout out loud
Cuz I love thee. Thank you God, for listening!

**

Sure enough, he received a full invitation to
have his timeless piece of literature
enshrined for all posterity, etc.

Gary shared his poem, the style of which he promptly
dubbed "Flarf," with members of the Subpoetics
mailing list, and before long a few other participants
began posting poems to Poetry.com, including myself,
Drew Gardner, Jordan Davis, and a handful of others.
Eventually, we formed a separate mailing list.