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The Walker Curates the News: 03.23.15

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MIchael Brown. Photo composite by Rin Johnson for Hyperallergic.

When poet Kenneth Goldsmith read a modified version of Michael Brown’s autopsy report as poetry at a Brown University conference, it left many in the audience stunned and sparked a firestorm online. Is it “racist exploitation in the name of conceptual poetics” or a meaningful response to a tragic injustice?

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