Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet.

His writing has been called some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by “Publishers Weekly”.

He is the founding editor of UbuWeb and is a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches.

He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010. He has published many books of poetry, notably “Fidget”, “Soliloquy”, “Day” and his American trilogy.

He is the editor of the “I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews”, which is the basis for an opera, “Trans-Warhol”, that premiered in Geneva in 2007.

In 2011, he co-edited with Craig Dworkin the book “Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing” and published a book of essays entitled “Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age”. In 2013, he was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first poet laureate.