Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which is the basis for an opera, "Trans-Warhol," premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. An hour-long documentary on his work, "Sucking on Words" premiered at the British Library in 2007. From 1996-2009, Goldsmith was the host of a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. He held the The Anschutz Distinguished Fellow Professorship in American Studies at Princeton University for 2009-10 and received the Qwartz Electronic Music Award in Paris in 2009. In 2011, he co-edited, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and published a book essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. Goldsmith will participate in dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany, 2012. In 2011, dOCUMENTA(13) published his book Letter To Bettina Funcke as part of their 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts series. Read more...

Related Links:

• Kenneth Goldsmith's page on PennSound
• Kenneth Goldsmith's Wikipedia Entry
• UbuWeb
• WFMU Homepage

Poems/Writings:

Books


• Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
• Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, co-edited with Craig Dworkin (Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2011).
• Letter To Bettina Funcke, "100 Notes - 100 Thoughts No. 017" (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz) Published by dOCUMENTA (13), 2011.
• I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004) [Translations: Interviews mit Andy Warhol, Verlag Kurt Liebig, Freiburg (tr. Susanne H�bel; foreword by Klaus Theweleit), 2005. German edition. Sarò Il Tuo Specchio: Interviste ad Andy Warhol, hopefulmonster, Torino (tr. Alain Cueff), 2007, Italian edition. Andy Warhol: Entretiens 1962/1987, Bernard Grasset, Paris, (tr. Alain Cueff), 2005, French edition. Bede Twoim Lustrem Wywiady Z Warholem, Wydawnictwo Ksiazkowe Twoj Styl, Warsaw, 2006, Polish edition. Andy Warhol. Entrevistas, Edición de Kenneth Goldsmith, Traducción de Ferran Esteve, Blackie Books (Barcelona, 2010), Spanish edition.]
• Sports PDF | Make Now, Los Angeles, 2008.
• Traffic | HTML | PDF | (Web Edition: Eclipse), Make Now, Los Angeles, 2007.
• The Weather | Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall (Make Now, Los Angeles, 2005)
  
• Head Citations | HTML | (The Figures, 2002)
• Soliloquy HTML | PDF (Granary Books, 2001)
• Fidget | Applet | Complete Text (Coach House Books, 2000)
• No. 111.2.7.93-10.20.96 HTML | PDF: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | (The Figures, 1997)
• 73 Poems | HTML (Permanent Press, 1994)
• 6799 | PDF | (zingmagazine, 2000)
  
  Chapbooks
  
  
• Gertrude Stein on Punctuation (Abaton Books, 2000) [PDF, 25k]
• No. 109 2.7.93-12.15.93 (Bravin Post Lee, 1994), [PDF, 278k]
• No. 110 10.4.93-10.7.93 (Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland, 1993), [PDF, 36k]
  
  
  About Kenneth Goldsmith:
  
  
• Marjorie Perloff - "Conceptualist Bridges / Digital Tunnels: Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic" Chapter 7 of Unoriginal Genius (University of Chicago, 2010) [PDF]
• Kenneth Goldsmith at The Academy of American Poets
• Entry on Kenneth Goldsmith in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry
• Dictionary entry on Kenneth Goldsmith from CONTEMPORARY POETS
• Kenneth Goldsmith's Wikipedia Entry
  
  Interviews:
  
  
• Mandl, Dave. "Interview: Kenneth Goldsmith," The Believer, VOL. 9, NO. 8, October 2011 | Archive PDF Version
• "Kenneth Goldsmith Talks to Nadja Romain." TANK, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 2011 | Archive PDF Version
• 'Uncreative Writer' Retypes the 'New York Times' NPR, June 5, 2008
• Academy of American Poets, "Against Expression": Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation", June 17, 2011 | Archive PDF Version
• Baumgartner, Thomas. "Vendredi hors-série #22 - Kenneth Goldsmith, fondateur d'UbuWeb" Les Passagers de la nuit, Radio France Culture, 25.03.2011. [30 minute streaming radio show]
• Haraldseth, Geir. "Avantgardens Robin Hood," Kuinstkritikk, March 2, 2011. | Archive PDF Version
• Slow and Fast Poetries: Dale Smith & Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation Jacket Magazine, Issue 38, 2009 | Archive PDF Version
• American Trilogist: An Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith by Kareem Estefan, Rain Taxi, Fall 2008 | Archive PDF Version
• Lonely Christopher in Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith , The Corresponding Society, October 10, 2008 | Archived PDF
• UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith , Archinect, June 26, 2007 | Archived PDF
• Copy Cat: Poet Kenneth Goldsmith encourages his students to plagiarize. Maybe that�s because stealing is making him famous. By Jason McBride, Toronto Life, July 2008 | Archived PDF
• Yang Interview [PDF] Belgium, July, 2006.
• Marjorie Perloff: A Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith (Jacket 21, Feb. 2003, [English]) and (Sibila, Brazil, 2002, [Portugese])
• WKCR (NYC) radio Interview. "Art Attack" with Brian Hanrahan. Recorded March 4, 2005 (30 minutes; MP3).
• What Else Can This Thing Do? Interview on Kenneth Goldsmith's WFMU radio practices (Repellent Webzine), 2005.
• Petty Theft: Kenny G Gives A's for Unoriginality | PDF Archive (The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania), November 18, 2004.
• Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith: Nude Media, Or Benjamin In The Age Of Ubiquitous Connectivity (from Tuli & Savu, 2003), by Leevi Lehto | Finnish Version (PDF)
• Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith (from Read Me #4), by Erik Belgum
• Exchanging Emails with Kenneth Goldsmith: An Interview by A.S. Bessa

Writings by Kenneth Goldsmith:


• Rewriting Walter Benjamin’s “The Arcades Project” | Archived PDF
• UbuWeb at 15 Years: An Overview | Archived PDF
• The Digital Flood: You�d Better Start Swimmin’ or You’ll Sink Like A Stone | Archived PDF
• Six File Sharing Epiphanies | Archived PDF
• Archiving Is The New Folk Art | Archived PDF
• Language’s Newest Role | Archived PDF
• Death of a Kingmaker: A Critical Evaluation of Silliman’s Blog | Archived PDF
• The Bounce and the Roll | Archived PDF
• The Meme Museum | Archived PDF
• Always Almost Obsolete, Always Almost New | Archived PDF
• If I were to raise my children the way I write my books, I would have been thrown in jail long ago | Archived PDF
• Your Poems Will Never Go Out of Print! | Archived PDF
• A Textual Ecosystem | Archived PDF
• The Zero Degree of Blunt Expediency | Archived PDF
• Provisional Language | Archived PDF
• If I were to raise my children the way I write my books, I would have been thrown in jail long ago | Archived PDF
• Introduction to Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing, Whitney Museum, Aprtil 17, 2009
• Kenneth Goldsmith, Harriet Blog Author Archive at The Poetry Foundation
• A Week of Blogs: On Conceptual Writing (Poetry Foundation, 2007) | Archived PDF Version | Archived PDF Comments
• I LOVE SPEECH (MLA Presidential Forum, 2007 / Poetry Foundation) | Archived PDF Version
• Being Boring
• Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing
• If It Doesn't Exist On The Internet, It Doesn't Exist
• Response to Foulipo
• The King of Boredom: A Tribute to Jackson Mac Low
• Uncreativity As Creative Practice
• Statement on The Weather
• The Bride Stripped Bare: Nude Media and The Dematerialization of Tony Curtis [PDF]
• I look to theory only when I realize that somebody has dedicated their entire life to a question I have only fleetingly considered (a work in progress)
• UbuWeb Wants to be Free
• From (Command) Line to (Iconic) Constellation | Portugese Translation

White House Reading & Workshop
May 11, 2011


• Kenneth Goldsmith reads at President and Mrs. Obama's "A Celebration of American Poetry" at The White House Evening of May 11, 2011
• Kenneth Goldsmith at The White House Poetry Workshop with Michelle Obama Afternoon of May 11, 2011
• Jon Stewart on Goldsmith's White House performance May 11, 2011
• Talk radio host Michael Savage on Goldsmith's White House performance [MP3]
• Goldsmith discussing his visit to The White House WFMU, May 18, 2011 [MP3]

American Book Review, Focus: Uncreative Writing
Volume 32, Number 4, May/June 2011
Edited by Doug Nufer


• Nufer, Doug. "Introduction to Focus: Uncreative Writing: What Are You Calling Art?" | Archived PDF
• Graves, Jen. "Looking at Blindness: The Double Ascendancy of Conceptual Art and Writing." | Archived PDF
• Reed, Brian M. "Textbook Uncreative Writing." Review of Against Expression. | Archived PDF
• Quaid, Andrea. "Context in the New Content," Review of Uncreative Writing. | Archived PDF
• Di Leo, Jeffery R. "From Éciture to Récriture." | Archived PDF
• Laura Mathias, "The New Flarf" | Archived PDF
• Moschovakis, Anna. "The Poetics of Guilt." | Archived PDF
• Nufer, Doug. "On the Road Again." | Archived PDF
• Daniel Levin Becker. "Friends without Benefits " | Archived PDF

Open Letter: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics
A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory
Twelfth Series, Number 7, Fall 2005
Edited by Barbara Cole & Lori Emerson


• Full Issue PDF (173 Pages)
  
  HTML Version
  
• "Introduction" -- Barbara Cole & Lori Emerson
  
• "Zero Kerning" -- Craig Dworkin
  
• "Encyclopedic Novelties: On Kenneth Goldsmith's Tomes" -- Molly Schwartzberg
  
• "from COLDEST" -- Bruce Andrews
  
• "KENNY" -- Geoffrey Young
  
• "Fidget's Body" -- Rubén Gallo
  
• "Fidgeting with the scene of the crime" -- Derek Beaulieu
  
• "A Silly Key: Some Notes on Soliloquy by Kenneth Goldsmith" -- Christian Bök
  
• "Sampling the Culture: 4 Notes Toward a Poetics of Plundergraphia and on Kenneth Goldsmith's Day" -- Jason Christie
  
• "Moving Information": On Kenneth Goldsmith's The Weather" -- Marjorie Perloff
  
• "Stepping out with Kenneth Goldsmith: A New York interview." -- Caroline Bergvall
  
• "W. 3rd St. - W. 26th St." -- Robert Fitterman
  
• "Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing" -- Kenneth Goldsmith
  
• "On Kenneth Goldsmith: The Avant-garde at a Standstill" -- Joshua Schuster
  
• "The Medium Means Nothing" -- Carl Peters
  
• "Un-Visual and Conceptual" -- Johanna Drucker
  
• "The Unboring Boring and the New Dream of Stone, or, if literature does politics as literature, what kind of gender politics does the current literature of the boring enact?" -- Christine Wertheim
  
• "sucking on words." -- Simon Morris, Dr. Howard Britton
  
• "Uncreative is the New Creative: Kenneth Goldsmith Not Typing" -- Darren Wershler-Henry
  

Reviews / Articles


• Perloff, Marjorie. "Toward a Conceptual Lyric: From Content to Context." Jacket 2, July 28, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Robert Archambeau "Kenneth Goldsmith, or The Art of Being Talked About", April 2011 | Archived PDF
• Vanessa Place "The Death of the Text: Kenneth Goldsmith at the White House", May 19, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Rowe, Sam. "Uncreative Writing, Creative Reading." Full Stop, August 16, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Xie, Julie. "Penn Professor Encourages Plagiarism." The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 13, 2011. | Archived PDF
• Kaplan, Isabel E. "In Someone Elese's Words." The Harvard Crimson, Monday, September 26, 2011 / Huffington Post, September 26, 2011. | Archived PDF
• Petrilla, Molly. "The 'Uncreative Writer' in Washington," The Pennsylvania Gazette (University of Pennsylvania), September-October, Vol. 100, No. 1. pp. 65-66. | Archived PDF
• Dinh, Linh. "Re: Penn's Kenneth Goldsmith to perform at the White House next week" May 5, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Filreis, Al. Response and Defense to Linh Dinh of Goldsmith's White House Appearance May 5, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Watten, Barrett. "Presentism and Periodization in Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing." Journal of Narrative Theory. Volume Forty-One, Number One, Spring 2011, pp. 125-157. [PDF]
• Finocchiaro, Peter. " Plagiarism Enthusiast Defends Plagiarism by Plagiarizing" IvyBlog, September 30, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Schulten, Katherine. "Poetry Pairing | Crystalline Weather" The New York Times, September 1, 2011. | Archived PDF
• Conde, Miguel. "Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanguarda da pilhagem: roubo e arte no UbuWeb" / Kenneth Goldsmith, do UbuWeb: 'O site é muito ruim' O Globo, Rio de Janiero. March 26, 2011 | Archived PDF
• Vanderbilt, Tom. " Traffic tweeting: Will Twitter change the way we drive?" Slate.com, Monday April 4, 2011. | Archived PDF
• Adeena Karasick "The Un-creation of the Wor(l)d: Conceptual Poetry as Kabbalistic Trope" (2011) [Word DOC]
• El autor más emblemático: 2000-2010 Milienio (Mexico City) January 9, 2010 | PDF archive
• Darren Wershler "Kenneth Goldsmith's American Trilogy" Postmodern Culture, Volume 19, Number 1, September 2008 [PDF]
• Hélène Aji « "The Weather [to]Day »: Overexposure to and of the Media in Kenneth Goldsmith's Work" (2009) [PDF]
• "WEB INTELLECTUAL: Meet the American poet bringing highbrow literature to the masses" Dazed and Confused, September 2009 | Image of Article
• Marjorie Perloff on Traffic From Speed, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 [PDF]
• Craig Dworkin The Imaginary Solution, Contemporary Literature XLVIII, No 1 (2007): 29-60 [PDF]
• Ron Silliman Something Kenny Goldsmith wrote in the current issue of Poetry has been nagging at me..., July 7, 2009
• Jed Rasula From Corset to Podcast: The Question of Poetry Now, American Literary History, Volume 21, Number 3, 2009.
• Uncreative but certainly not uninteresting: There are enough words out there, Kenneth Goldsmith believes. Better to spend your time re-organizing them than writing more. Kate Taylor, Globe & Mail, Toronto, January 17, 2009 [PDF]
• Street Poets & Visionaries: Selections from the UbuWeb Collection by Darren Wershler, (Mercer Union, Toronto, February 2009)
• Uncreative Writing by Radkhika Jones, Bookforum, June/July/Aug 2008 [PDF]
• Kenneth Goldsmith's American Trilogy by Steven Zultanski, (Rain Taxi, Vol. 13 No. 3, Fall 2008)
• The Waste-Management Poetics of Kenneth Goldsmith by Christopher Schmidt, SubStance #116, Vol. 37, no. 2, 2008 [PDF]
• Kenneth Goldsmith: The New York Trilogy by D.J. Huppatz, (2008) | Archive PDF version
• Poetic Transcribed Baseball by Steven Fama (2008) | Archive PDF version
• Poetic Transcribed Baseball - Hot Stove League Action by Steven Fama (2008) | Archive PDF version
• Punny Poems and The Future of the Wor(l)d (On Head Citations) by Steven Fama (2008) | Archive PDF version
• Kenneth Goldsmith on Uncreative Writing by RJ Thompson, The Skinny, Edinburgh, Scotland. June, 2008 | Archive PDF version
• Sports by Kenneth Goldsmith, Dazed and Confused (UK), September 2008
• Artforum on Kenneth Goldsmith and UbuWeb (2008)
• Publishers Weekly on Sports (2008)
• Publishers Weekly on Traffic (2008)
• Charles Bernstein on Traffic (2007)
• Marjorie Perloff, "Conceptualisms, Old and New" (Parkett, 2007) [PDF]
• Marjorie Perloff, "Screening the Page/ Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text" - extended discussion of Goldsmith (from New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, MIT Press) [PDF]
• "Digital Poetry and the Rematerialization of the Textual-Human-Machinic Body" Lori Emerson (PDF)
  Presented at the MLA Convention 2006 as part of a roundtable on the Posthuman
• Ron Silliman on Kenneth Goldsmith (2006)
• Bookforum on The Weather | PDF Archive Version
• Leevi Lehto: It's Nothing!: Reflexions on the work of Kenneth Goldsmith, with an emphasis on The Weather
• "Digital Poetry as Reflexive Embodiment" by Lori Emerson (Cybertext Yearbook, 2002-2003) [PDF]
• Publishers Weekly on The Weather
• "Affect and Autism: Kenneth Goldsmith's Reconstitution of Signal and Noise" by Raymond McDaniel
• "A Textual Vanitas" Review of Day by Raphael Rubenstein, Art in America
• "What's It For?" The Gig on Day
• BOMB on Day
• Publishers Weekly on Day
• Brian Kim Stefans "Little Review of Day"
• Doug Nufer on Day: "The Creativity Racket"
• Brad Ford: A Provincial Review of Day
• The Poetics of Click and Drag: Screening the New Poetries [PDF], Marjorie Perloff, (Discussion of Goldsmith's Solioloquy)
• The New York Times on Goldsmith, UbuWeb, and Aspen Magazine | Archive PDF Version
• New York Press on Head Citations
• Christian Bök on No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96
• Rain Taxi on Soliolquy
• The New York Times on Broken New York
• Brian Kim Stefans on Fidget
• The Wire on Goldsmith and UbuWeb
• The New Art Examiner on Soliolquy
• Publishers Weekly on Soliolquy
• The Boston Review on Fidget
• On Soliloquy: extreme reading: a telephone conversation between Simon Morris and Pavel Büchler, 08.03.01
• The American Book Review on Fidget
• The Gig on Fidget
• Publishers Weekly on Fidget
• Rain Taxi on Fidget
• Utne Reader on Fidget
• Afterwords: Fidget, 6799 + Gertrude Stein on Punctuation by John Strausbaugh
• "VOCABEL SCRIPTSIGNS" : Differential Poetics in Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget by Marjorie Perloff
• Kenneth Goldsmith's Textualities by Bill Arning
• Artist's Book Beat: Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget by Nancy Princenthal
• Information Archives, the De-Materialization of Language, and Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget and No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96. by Tan Lin
• Sculpting With Words: It Figures by John Strausbaugh
• Snickering For Joy: Kenneth Goldsmith's No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96 by Stacey Levine
• An Open Letter to Kenneth Goldsmith on Receiving His New Book No. 111 2.7.83-10.20.96 by Erik Belgum
• Kenneth Goldsmith's Soliloquy by Gordon Tapper
• Kenneth Goldsmith + Graham Gillmore: Whose Words? by Debra Balken
• Visual Voices by Raphael Rubinstein
• Noticings: Kenneth Goldsmith + Joan La Barbara's 73 Poems by Marjorie Perloff
• Sound, Sight, Sense: Chez Kenneth Goldsmith by Geoffrey Young
• Preface To The Music by John Schaefer
• Comments On 73 Poems by Robert Mahoney
• 73 Poems by Mike Silverton
• No. 105: Kenneth Goldsmith's Text Art by Geoffrey Young

Student Papers on Kenneth Goldsmith:


• "Balderdash" Ryan Conn, RISD (2009) [PDF]
  
• Ian Parkin Sings His Student Essay on Kenneth Goldsmith [2007] (22'57")
  Music: "Right Off" by Miles Davis
  
• "P's and Q's of Poetry: An Examination of Contemporary and Historical Conceptions of the Value of Quotidian Language in Creative Writing" Joshua DeMinter, Lannon Fellows Program, Georgetown University, 2006
• "Kenneth Goldsmith's Life in 600 Pages: No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96" by Desereè M. Martinez. Senior Thesis, Princeton University, Department of English, 2001
• Robin Moroney on Kenneth Goldsmith. Arts Seminar Profile, School of Journalism, Columbia University, 2000

Various:
• Founding Editor, UbuWeb
• Senior Editor, PennSound
• Editor "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews"
  Reviews:
  • The New York Times
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Library Journal
  • Booklist
  
  
  ACADEMIC
• Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
  Faculty Profile
  Courses:
  • English 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art - Full Year 2011-2012
  • English 111.301 Uncreative Writing: Robotic Erotica/Erotic Robotics: Scribing a Non-Expresssive Sexuality - Fall 2010
  • ARTH 100-001 Spiegel Seminar in Contemporary Art: Contemporary Art And The Art Of Curating
  • English 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art - Full Year 2009-2010
  • English 111.301 Interventionist Writing: Writing Off the Page - Fall 2008
  • English 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art - Spring 2008
  • English 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art--THIS IS A YEAR LONG COURSE - Fall 2007
  • English 111.301 Experimental Writing: Uncreative Writing - Fall 2006
  • English 165.301 Writing Through Culture and Art - Spring 2006
  • English 165.301 Writing Through Culture and Art - Fall 2005
  • English 111.301 Experimental Writing Seminar: Uncreative Writing - Fall 2004
  
  
  POSITIONS:
• Faculty, Center for Programs in Creative Writing. University of Pennsylvania, 2004-present
• Faculty, Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-present
• Anschutz Distinguished Fellow Professorship in American Studies, Princeton University, 2009-2010
• Featured Writer, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago 2007-present
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Seminar "Publishing as Practice," 2006-2007
• Founding Editor of UbuWeb (ubu.com) 1995-present
• Senior Editor, Penn Sound, University of Pennsylvania 2004-present
• WFMU Radio Host, New York City, 1995-2010
• Commentator on NPR, New York City 1999-2004
• Classical Music Critic for New York Press, 1998-2001