[2] Parra, known as the father of anti-poetry, published his first collection of antipoems in 1954,[3] rejecting the conventional belief that verse holds a mystical power.
[4] Petropoulos sought to describe the art of anti-poetry in his Berlin notebook containing verses that included intentionally-made mistakes of prosody, grammar, and rhyme.
Petropoulos had come to believe that poetry centered on love and desire was too gentle for modern literature – that it was time for an anti-poetry incorporating anti-sentimental feelings.
[5] During 5th century B.C, theatrical sketches called mimes were being introduced with ideas and languages that were determined to be anti-plays.
[6][7] The Prague-based performance and poetics collective Object:Paradise began in 2019 by Tyko Say with the mission to make "poetry readings more inclusive and inter-disciplinary and less restricted to art cafes and turtlenecks".