Kenneth Goldsmith | |
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 Kenneth Goldsmith reading at President Obama's A Celebration of American Poetry at the White House on May 11, 2011 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Freeport, New York |
| Occupation | Poet, critic |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Day |
| Spouse | Cheryl Donegan |
| Children | 2 |
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Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet and critic. He was the founding editor of UbuWeb and an artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught. He was also a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010. He published 32 books including ten books of poetry, notably Fidget (2000), Soliloquy (2001), Day (2003) and his American trilogy, The Weather (2005), Traffic (2007), and Sports (2008), 'Seven American Deaths and Disasters (2011), and 'Capital: New York Capital of the Twentieth Century (2015). He also was the author of three books of essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011), Wasting Time on The Internet (2016), and Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb (2020). In 2013, he was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first poet laureate.[1]
- ^ "Transforming the Discourse: MoMA Appoints its First Poet Laureate". The Wall Street Journal. March 20, 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2022.