Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith is exactly the sort of provocateur I love to wrestle with. A poet from Freeport, New York, he built his reputation on conceptual writing, retyping and recontextualizing existing text until the very idea of authorship feels destabilized. Founding UbuWeb, that sprawling avant-garde archive, was a gift to anyone curious about the experimental margins, and his reach across music criticism and computer art shows a restless intelligence. He divides readers sharply, and I think that is the point. I am persuaded by artists who force us to ask what language even is. Goldsmith makes boredom into a weapon, and I find that irresistibly clever.

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Name (English)

Kenneth Goldsmith

Name (Japanese)

ケネス・ゴールドスミス

Reading

けねす・ごーるどすみす

Born

1961

Origin

Freeport, New York, United States

Occupation

poet / university teacher / writer / music critic / computer artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Ox

Awards & achievements

• 2020 François Morellet Prize

• Official sitehttps://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/goldsmith/
• Xhttps://x.com/kg_ubu
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Goldsmith
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4552568

Tags

• New York
• poet
• university teacher
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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