1971-Present

New Narrative is a literary and aesthetic movement that originated in San Francisco in the late 1970s with writers and novelists Robert Glück and Bruce Boone that moved toward a hybrid aesthetic.

A competitive poetry performance in which selected audience members score performers, and winners are determined by total points.

An umbrella term for writing that ranges from the constraint-based practices of OuLiPo to Concrete poetry’s visual poetics.

Defined variously as a reaction to modernism or merely the movement that followed it, postmodernism tends to refer to an intellectual, artistic, or cultural outlook or practice that is suspicious of hierarchy and objective knowledge and embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, and diversity.