[New-Poetry] Academy-Award Winnning Sad Thought

[Chris Stroffolino]

Ah, the feel good hit in the summer.

I thought Kenny-G had a thinkership, or at least a listenership,  
through his radio show on WFMU.
WFMU was a college radio station in The Oranges (New Jersey), but  
even when the college went under,
the station still existed. For  a few years, they used to proudly  
announce how they broadcasted from a "Ghost Campus."
Then, since much of their listening audience was in the NYC  
metropolitan area, they relocated to Hoboken.
I doubt the film would win an academy award, but you never know.
Maybe Kenny G., will argue that his DJ existence was not in any way  
connected with his poet existence....

On May 18, 2007, at 10:20 AM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/the_academy.html
>
> Kenneth Goldsmith--
> "Without the academy, as I poet I don't exist. I have almost no  
> readership (thinkership) outside the academy. This is not a choice  
> of mine: it's is a condition that preceded my arrival onto the  
> writing scene, fostered by numerous cultural conditions in the  
> States -- primarily by the precedent set by the warm reception of  
> Language Poetry by the academy in the 80s. As a result, since then,  
> innovative or experimental writing lives only in the academy. "
>
> --
> It's the reader's fault--Finnegan
>
>
>
>
> See what's free at AOL.com.
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