Noah Eli Gordon


Noah Eli Gordon is an American poet, editor, and publisher.

Overview

Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, an editor for The Volta, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press. He ran Braincase Press, and was a founding editor of the little magazine Baffling Combustions.
His recent books include The Year of the Rooster , The Source, Novel Pictorial Noise, and Inbox. His essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, criticism, and poetry appear widely, including journals such as Bookforum, Seneca Review, Boston Review, Fence, Hambone, and in the anthologies Postmodern American Poetry, A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, Poets on Teaching , and Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. He was interviewed in the spring of 2007 by Rain Taxi, for whom he wrote a chapbook review column at the time.
Critic Michael Robbins, in his award-winning essay "Ripostes," published by Poetry Magazine, referred to Gordon's work as "simply dead — nonresponsive, flatlined, toe-tagged, rotting," while critic Stephen Burt, writing for The Nation, noted how Gordon's poetry, which he called "delightful," is "reacting to big modern systems, above all to the system called capitalism, whose results and failures seem inescapable."

Personal

Gordon was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He now lives in Denver.

Awards