section_path: Genres/Language happenings
section_name: Language happenings
paragraph_text: Language happenings
  
  The term happening was popularized by the avant-garde movements in the 1950s and regard spontaneous, site-specific performances. Language happenings, termed from the poetics collective OBJECT:PARADISE in 2018, are events which focus less on poetry as a prescriptive literary genre, but more as a descriptive linguistic act and performance, often incorporating broader forms of performance art while poetry is read or created in that moment.