Founded in January 2023, dadakuku is a journal of microdadaism, nanononsense, minisurrealism, absurdiku, and experimental poetry of lilliputian length. Life is short and weird, poetry should be too.
“One shouldn’t let too many words out.”
Hugo Ball, Dada Manifesto
dadakuku is maintained and edited by petro c. k., a poet interested in expanding the boundaries of dada, surrealist, and experimental poetry by compressing the parameters down to the intense focus demanded of short-form poetry.
dadakuku is interested in a wide world of weird which includes (but is not limited to) absurdist humor, contrast, and satire; fragments, cut-ups, appropriations, and recontextualizations; found poems and dialogue; anti-poems (whatever it means to you); the surreal, bizarre, nonsensical, irreverent, and iconoclastic; counterculture and protest; the unconscious and the uncanny; verses created with chance, intuition, irrationality, automatism, absurdity, or dreamstates. The parameters of brevity leaves no room for self-indulgence or ego, and instead intensifies the focus of each word, letter, and utterance.
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