MTVu, the MTV channel to be broadcast only on college campuses, has chosen John Ashbery as their "poet laureate."
His work will be featured on the MTVu website and on short commercial spots on the channel.
This makes me unspeakably happy, as Ashbery is my favorite poet. It is fantastic that:
A. MTV is making poetry seem hip.
B. They are using a poetic giant like Ashbery to do so.
It's a funny juxtaposition, though, because Ashbery doesn't absorb modern popular culture and still writes his poetry on a typewriter.
Anyway, you can read some of Ashbery's work on the MTVu website.
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