experimental poetry

Experimental poetry departs from conventional forms, techniques, and expectations about what poetry should be.

It may abandon traditional meter, rhyme, syntax, or even recognizable language in favor of visual arrangements, fragmented text, found materials, or procedural methods.

The term covers a wide range of practices—concrete poetry, Language poetry, Flarf, erasure poetry—united mainly by resistance to mainstream conventions: Her experimental poetry used algorithms to generate lines from spam emails.