He is the founding editor of experimental audio archive UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PENNsound. He hosted a weekly experimental radio show at WFMU and has published ten books of poetry, notably Fidget (2000), Soliloquy (2001) and Day (2003) and Goldsmith’s American trilogy, The Weather (2005), Traffic, (2007) and Sports, (2008). In 2013, he was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first Poet Laureate.