2009_PSU_Goldsmith_960‘To appreciate the beleaguered position that Kenneth Goldsmith finds himself in, you have to know that in 1997 or 1998 three avant-garde poets, one of them Goldsmith, drinking in a basement bar in Buffalo during a blizzard, decided to start a revolutionary poetry movement, one that went on to endorse “uncreative writing,” a phrase and a field that Goldsmith invented.’  Read the New Yorker‘s recent profile.

And Brian Kim Stefan‘s response and this Poetry Foundation discussion.