The White House has embraced con-artist Kenny Goldsmith. He will lead a “poetry workshop for children” with Mrs. Obama. This should be rich. For years now Goldsmith has been insulting the intelligence of college students, readers of the Harriet blog and Poetry magazine (see here and here), as well as credulous members of what passes for the “avant-garde” in this country. According to his Wikipedia page, Goldsmith’s classes at University of Pennsylvania, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, involve “appropriation, theft, stealing, plundering and sampling.Read More