I never thought I'd see the day, but MTV is going intellectual on us! Apparently, MtvU (the MTV station for colleges) has picked its first poet laureate.

John Ashbery, 80, will now have his work used as promotional material for the MTV station. This is a really cool honor, but it's certainly not the first for Ashbery. He's won almost every award associated with poetry. He's even won a Pulitzer!

His poems are often filled with humor, which seems perfect for the MTV crowd.

Lines from Ashbery's poems will be used to hopefully get more people interested in poetry.

Well, all of us here at WORD know how cool poetry is. Yay to MTV for realizing it as well.