Kenneth Goldsmith will present a free reading at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 21, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Goldsmith's writing has been called "some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, the founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), and the editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for an opera, Trans-Warhol, that premiered in Geneva in March 2007.

Goldsmith teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. He was awarded the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow Professorship in American Studies at Princeton University for 2009-10 and received the Qwartz Electronic Music Award in Paris in 2009. In May 2011, he was invited to read at the White House for "A Celebration of American Poetry," an event held by President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.

The Iowa Writers’ Workshop is a graduate program in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

For more information or accommodations contact the Writers' Workshop at 319-335-0416. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events, visit the new Arts Iowa website.