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East Los

East Los
 n.— «Gunfires of east los/everberate in san fernando.» —“this is the city [reply to jmj] /z.” by Zita Maria Evensen Usenet: rec.arts.poems Oct. 18, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

fib

fib  n.— «Why just haiku? I wanted something that required more precision. That led me to a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8—the classic Fibonacci sequence. In short, start with 0 and 1, add them...

flarf

flarf  n.— «For the past few years some poets have approached Google as a detournement machine, using the search function as a phrase generator and assembling the results into cut-up poems. (In some circles the method and poems go by the...

flarf

flarf n. a style of poetry in which poems are formed by a collage of quasi-random, serendipitously found words and phrases; poems or a poem in the style. Editorial Note: The word history given in the site linked by the first citation is believed to...

flarf

flarf  n.— «My own understanding of it went something like this: “Flarf” is a collage-based method which employs Google searches, specifically the partial quotes which Google “captures” from websites. In its early...