High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flarf poetry can be characterized as an avant garde poetry movement of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. Its first practitioners used an aesthetic dedicated to the exploration of “the inappropriate” in all of its guises. Their method, adapted from a technique of Drew Gardner`s, was to mine the Internet with odd search terms then distill the results into often hilarious and sometimes disturbing poems, plays, and other texts. The term Flarf was coined by the poet Gary Sullivan, who also wrote the earliest Flarf poetry. Pioneers of the movement include Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, Sharon Mesmer, Mel Nichols, K. Silem Mohammad, Michael Magee, Rodney Koeneke, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan and others.