I’d never heard of the Xyiwa poets until I got a shout from a Digger. It seems they wrote in the 1960s. And the interesting thing is, they wrote on cave walls.

A new blog dedicated to the Xyiwa poets has only two blog entries. I’d be interested in seeing where this goes. This school of poetics is so small and obscure that I’m not sure that a blog wholly dedicated to it could hold onto enough material to keep it running long term. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.

The blogger is calling himself Caveman Doug. Cool name. But I wonder if he himself is one of the Xyiwa poets or if he is just an admirer.

On May 7, Caveman Doug made his first blog post:

In the 1960’s, Ziohat held poetry readings for a few select followers in secret caves. Like the impressionists in painting, the early poets were scorned. A few rich patrons financed the building of a luxury cave complex where wild parties were held and poety was written on the cave walls. They called themselves the Xyiwa poets.

I tried researching Ziohat, Xyiwa poets, Ricgadax School, and Jack Chelka, but I couldn’t find any information on them. I wonder if this is a real poetic movement or is this fiction?

Does anyone else have any insight into this?