![]() More recently there was a piece in The New Yorker, which attracted insightful responses from Cathy Park Hong and Brian Kim Stefans. Overland, Hyperallergic and The Poetry Foundation ran extended opinion pieces too. His visibility only increased after the Brown controversy and The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and others ran stories. He has been interviewed for Playboy, The Colbert Report and performed at the White House. Goldsmith stands as the most visible figure of conceptual poetry. Goldsmith’s performance was titled “The Body of Michael Brown” and the resulting commentary was widespread. Louis county autopsy report of African American teenager Michael Brown, who was murdered by police and whose death sparked nationwide protests against police brutality including in Ferguson (Brown’s home town). The reading took place at Brown University and was a remixed St. On March 13 th 2015, Kenneth Goldsmith received a death threat on Twitter from Cassandra Gillig shortly after giving a reading. To think that I know more than that is preposterous. ![]() What do I know of the world? I know the network, I know art, I know music, I know literature. I’ve spent the past thirty years in the studio. I come from nowhere: the suburbs of Long Island, a waste land bereft of culture … I know nothing of politics. ![]()
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