Full story is in the New York Times.
John Ashbery – mtvU – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/boo…
MtvU, the subsidiary of MTV Networks that is broadcast only on college campuses, will announce today that it has selected its first poet laureate. No, he doesnt rap. And its not Bob Dylan, or even Justin Timberlake.
The words “MTV” and “poet laureate” are not ones that I would ever expect to find in the same sentence.
According to the general manager of mtvU, “I don’t think there’s such a big leap from the artists we’re playing to the poetry that John is creating. Some of the music we play, Bright Eyes and the Decemberists, they’re phenomenal poets. I feel like there’s a connection there.”
I’m a big fan of Bright Eyes, but come on.
