Poetry Foundation Chicago
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The Corruption of the Poetry Foundation
“Kenny Goldsmith was correct in saying that poetry is fifty years behind visual art. Both he and the poetry foundation are, in a certain respect, the vanguard of poetry as it enters a phase wherein its absolute nullity is realized and becomes immediately displaced into these forceful gestures of grandeur which are not too different… Read more
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Poetry Foundation dishonours the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita
A foundation for poetry???? NOPE! A dishonour to the works of the great poets it houses in its dead museum.As Frances Kruk puts it so well. The Multi million dollar building of the Poetry Foundation is: an homage to the glass temples of skyscraping capitalism. All of these spaces are gated and intolerant to the disobedient, the… Read more
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ACK! ACK! ACK! SHAME ON THE POETRY FOUNDATION (USA)
A couple days ago, at the arraignment hearing in Chicago for Stephanie Dunn, the poet and artist arrested at behest of Poetry Foundation a few weeks back for a performance-based protest at the PF Wine and Cheese Gala, an official representative of the Poetry Foundation called on the judge to send Dunn to Cook County Penitentiary… Read more
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