[New-Poetry] Academy-Award Winnning Sad Thought

[Chris Stroffolino]

Correction---I meant Jersey City (not Hoboken).....

On May 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Chris Stroffolino wrote:

> 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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