Poetic collectives and their structural elements: impacts on forms of literary production and circulation

This article examines how contemporary poetic collectives reinvent literary production, circulation, and reception by integrating performance, politics, and affectivity. The research (2022-2025), involving dozens of collectives, reveals practices such as saraus and poetry slams, where performanciality redefines literature as a public and politically engaged act. Writers like Luiza Romão and Emerson Alcalde merge writing and performance, addressing themes such as racism and inequality. The occupation of spaces transforms everyday locations into stages of resistance. These groups function as social technology, promoting inclusion and challenging traditional authorship models through the performer-author, who blends writing, voice, and gesture in collaborative networks. Poetic collectives democratize access to literature and redefine its political role by embedding it in community dynamics. The study concludes that these collectives represent a new cultural paradigm in which literature becomes a collective, performative, and transformative practice, emphasizing the importance of participatory research connecting academia, artists, and society.

Keywords:
poetic collectives; spoken word; ethical call; performance