Kenneth Goldsmith

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 is a senior editor of PennSound, the online poetry archive here at Penn. 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 (Northwestern University Press) and published a book essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia University Press). In May 2011, he was invited to read at The White House for President and Mrs. Obama's "A Celebration of American Poetry." 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. In 2013, he was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first Poet Laureate.

More about Goldsmith can be found at:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith

Articles and Book Chapters

"Conceptual Poetics" Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2013)

"FROM Day" Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2013)

"Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Part 4: (Death of John Lennon reported on Monday Night Football)" Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2013)

News & Events

2018/12/06

KWH: The Art of Writing Badly

Courses Taught

spring 2025

ENGL 3111.301 Experimental Writing: You Talkin’ to Me?: Speaking as Writing

fall 2023

ENGL 3111.302 Interventionalist Tactics: Writing Off the Page

spring 2023

ENGL 3111.301 Experimental Writing

fall 2022

ENGL 3111.301 Experimental Writing: Poetics of the Infra-Ordinary

spring 2022

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

fall 2021

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

spring 2021

ENGL 111.301 Rip, Remix, Burn: Music as Poetry/Poetry as Music

fall 2020

ENGL 142.401 Duchamp is My Lawyer

spring 2020

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

fall 2019

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

spring 2019

ENGL 111.301 Interventionist Writing: Writing Off the Page

fall 2018

ENGL 111.301 Exactly Wrong: The Art of Writing Badly

spring 2018

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Marcel Duchamp

fall 2017

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Marcel Duchamp

spring 2017

ENGL 111.301 Uncreative Writing

fall 2016

ENGL 111.301 Wasting Time on the Internet

spring 2016

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

fall 2015

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Cultural Art

spring 2015

ENGL 111.301 Wasting time on the Internet

fall 2014

ENGL 111.301 Uncreative Writing

spring 2014

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Art and Literature

fall 2013

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Art and Literature

fall 2012

ENGL 111.301 Uncreative Writing

spring 2012

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Art and Literature

fall 2011

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

fall 2010

ENGL 111.301 Uncreative Writing: Robotic Erotica/Erotic Robotics: Scribing a Non-Expresssive Sexuality

spring 2010

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Art and Literature

fall 2009

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

fall 2008

ENGL 111.301 Interventionist Writing: Writing Off the Page

spring 2008

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art

fall 2007

ENGL 165.301 Writing through Culture and Art--THIS IS A YEAR LONG COURSE

fall 2006

ENGL 111.301 Experimental Writing: Uncreative Writing

spring 2006

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Culture and Art

fall 2005

ENGL 165.301 Writing Through Culture and Art

fall 2004

ENGL 111.301 Experimental Writing Seminar: Uncreative Writing