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 nine 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: Kenneth Goldsmith" premiered at the British Library in 2007. Kenneth Goldsmith is 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 has been awarded the The Anschutz Distinguished Fellow Professorship at Princeton University for 2010. A book of critical essays, Uncreative Writing, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Read more...

Related Links:

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

73 Poems	No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96	Fidget	Soliloquy
Head Citations	Day	The Weather	Traffic	Sports
These books are available from Small Press Distribution or St. Marks Bookshop, NYC

Poems/Writings:

Books


• 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:
  
  
• Entry on Kenneth Goldsmith in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry
• Dictionary entry on Kenneth Goldsmith from CONTEMPORARY POETS
  
  Interviews:
  
  
• 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 thatŐs 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:


• Introduction to Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing, Whitney Museum, Aprtil 17, 2009
• Kenneth Goldsmith, Harriet Blog Author Archive at The Poetry Foundation
• 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

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


• Marjorie Perloff on Traffic From Speed, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 [PDF]
• 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 | Archive PDF version
• 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 [PDF]
• 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:


• 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:
• Director, 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
• Faculty University of Pennsylvania
  Courses:
  • 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
  
  
  
• Kenny G + People Like Us: Nothing Special | Info
• 73 Poems, Lovely Music (with Joan La Barbara)
• DJ on WFMU Homepage
• A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music

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