My Virtual French Summer: Encounters with Millennial French Poets

After my Study Abroad program in Paris was cancelled due to COVID-19, I decided to travel to France in a different way: through a virtual literary lens For several weeks throughout the summer of 2020, I scoured hundreds of Instagram accounts and scrolled through numerous online French literary magazines—Recours au poeme, 17secondes, Revue la piscine, Levure litteraire, and Les Tas de mots—in an attempt to find a new generation of millennial poets working across various modes of experimentation In this article I present bilingually in translation six poets—Adeline Duong, Arthur Fousse, Marie Allegre, Kenny Ozier-Lafontaine, Ada Mondes, and Thibault Marthouret—in the hope that their literary innovations and experiments may have an impact on the American literary canon