[New-Poetry] Sad Thought Of The Day

[Anny Ballardini]

I naturally meant _byte_
:-(

> like a drop in a sink
> like a bit in a network
> like green when it's green
> or white when it's white
>
> From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:53 PM
>
>
>> Like the tree falling in the forest....
>>
>> Linda Sue Grimes wrote:
>>> "as I poet I don't exist"
>>>  What does that mean?
>>>  respectfully,
>>> lsg
>>>
>>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>>     *From:* JforJames at aol.com <mailto:JforJames at aol.com>
>>>     *To:* new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto:new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>>>     *Sent:* Friday, May 18, 2007 12:20 PM
>>>     *Subject:* [New-Poetry] Sad Thought Of The Day
>>>
>>>     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