Summary: Kenneth Goldsmith is an American artist, conceptual poet, editor, and radio personality. He is the 2012 keynote speaker for the Works-in-Progress Festival in Iowa City. Currently at work on the rewriting of Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project, he is also the author of numerous books of poetry, a book of essays, and an anthology of conceptual writing. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he edits UbuWeb and PennSound.
