[Janice D. Soderling]

Remember the threads on Poetry's Flarf issue and the New Yorker's My dick is an elk or sumpen like that.

Well, check this out:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/p...th_int erview

Against Expression": Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation

PS I don't know how to do that little link hide thingy. I hope this doesn't stretch our screens.

[Jayne Osborn]

Blimey, Janice, I was starting to lose the will to live, reading this

[Gail White]

Just when you think things can't get any worse, you find interviews
with guys like this in respectable places. As the saying goes, no matter how cynical you get, you can't keep up.

I have, however, thought of a title for my next book:

"SPAM: Poems Deleted from my E-Mail"

[ChrisGeorge]

I first read the title of this thread to read, "Your shopping lists might be punishable."

[Gregory Dowling]

Just point your mouse to the left of Goldsmith's shin and you can find an alternative (entertaining and enlightening) interview with Richard Wilbur.

Having read Goldsmith's opening sentence, "The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn't need to be read", I'm quite happy to take him at his word. And after a quick scroll down the page, the same goes for the interview. Life is just too short, after all. It's too short, also, to spend time getting upset about the fact that such an interview appears on a reputable site.

[Will Gourley]

For art from a putative shopping list, try to find "Receipt" by Big Poppa-E.

Cheers wkg
There's no accounting for taste

[Rory Waterman]

It's all so liberating, man.

[Rick Mullin]

Yeah, but two paragraphs into Wilbur, and I went right back to Goldsmith.

RM

[Rory Waterman]

Yeah, I'm sticking with Goldsmith too. You don't even have to read him. I'm enjoying it tremendously.

[Ed Shacklee]

Cupped with hands of skill,
How clear their voices ring,
Containing passion still,
Who cared enough to sing.

xxx- William Meredith,
xxxxTo a Western Bard Still a Whoop and a Holler Away From Poetry