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Imagism
thumb|The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, [[Des Imagistes, published in 1914.]] Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctr
diwan
the systematic collection of a poet's output for academic purposes, as opposed to the self-published mecmuas
spoken word
genre; oral poetic performance art based mainly on the poetic as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities
concrete poetry
genre of poetry with lines arranged as a shape
goliard
right|thumb|An image from the 11th-13th century. Carmina Burana, [[Benediktbeuern Abbey, a collection of goliard love and vagabond songs]]The goliards were a group of generally young clergy in Europe who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries of the Middle Ages. They were chiefly clerics who served at or had studied at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England, who protested against the growing contradictions within the church through song, poetry and performance. Disaffected and not called to the religious life, they often presented such protests with
Neoteric
The Neoterikoi (Ancient Greek: '; Latin: ', "new poets"), also known as the Neoterics or, according to Cicero, cantores Euphorionis ("singers of Euphorion"), were a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BCE. Neoteric poets deliberately turned away from classical Homeric epic poetry. Rather than focusing on the feats of ancient heroes and gods, they propagated a new style of poetry through stories that operated on a smaller scale in regard to themes and setting.
confessional poetry
movement in 20th-century poetry
Silver Age of Russian Poetry
traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first two decades of the 20th century
sound poetry
artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values
Language poets
Group of avant-garde American poets
open mic
live show at a variety of different clubs
Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
Wiener Gruppe
group of humans
digital poetry
form of electronic literature
Fescennine Verses
ancient Roman wedding songs
performance poetry
poetry composed for live performance
creacionismo
literary movement
Kāvya
Kāvya (Devanagari: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) was the Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets flourishing between c. 200 BCE and 1200 CE.
Golden Age of Russian Poetry
the first half of the 19th century
New Sincerity
artistic and philosophical movement
Anti-poetry
Anti-poetry is a literary movement that advocates breaking the usual conventions of traditional poetry. Early proponents of anti-poetry include the Chilean Nicanor Parra and the Greek Elias Petropoulos.
Signalism
thumb|right|Symbol of Signalism Signalism (; from ) represents an international neo-avant-garde literary and art movement. It gathered wider support base both in former Yugoslavia and the world in the late 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.
war poet
poet involved in or associated with a war
Infrarrealismo
Infrarealism () is a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975 by a group of twenty young poets, including Roberto Bolaño, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, José Vicente Anaya, :es:Rubén Medina, :es:José Rosas Ribeyro, Guadalupe Ochoa, Vera and Mara Larrosa, :es:Claudia Kerik, :es:Darío Galicia and José Peguero.
Islamic poetry
poetry written by Muslims
Stridentism
Stridentism () was an artistic and multidisciplinary avant-garde movement, founded in the city of Puebla by Manuel Maples Arce at the end of 1921 but formally developed in Xalapa where all the founders moved after the University of Veracruz granted its support for the movement. Stridentism shares some characteristics with Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism and Ultraism, but it developed a specific social dimension, taken from the Mexican Revolution, and a concern for action and its own present. Stridentists were part of the political avant-garde, in contrast to the "elitist" modernism of Los Contemporá
film poetry
poetry in video form
Ukrainian school
group of Polish Romantic poets from modern-day Ukraine
Zenitism
thumb|Zenit, a monthly periodical about Zenitism, ran from 1921 until it was forbidden in 1926
medieval poetry
forms of poetry, genre lyric and epic in the medieval era
Flarf poetry
avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century
Latin poetry
poetry of the Latin language
melodeclamation
Melodeclamation (from Greek “melos” = song, and Latin “declamatio” = declamation) was a chiefly 19th century practice of reciting poetry while accompanied by concert music. It is also described as "a type of rhythmic vocal writing that bears a resemblance to Sprechstimme."
Chhayavaad
thumb|180px|right|The first issue of Matwālā|Matvala, a notable magazine that played a significant role in the development of Chāyāvād. Chhayavad (ISO: ) refers to the era of mystical-romanticism in Hindi literature, particularly poetry, spanning approximately from mid-1910s to early-1940s. It emerged as a reaction to the didacticism of its previous poetic movement - the Dwivedi era - as well as the courtly traditions of poetry.
Die Krokodile
small poets' society in Munich, 1856 to the 1870s
Danrin school
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s