Noah Eli Gordon

Noah Eli Gordon (1975 – July 10, 2022) was an American poet, editor, and publisher.

Gordon was the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions,^[1] an editor for The Volta,^[2] and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing^[3] at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directed Subito Press.^[4] He ran Braincase Press,^[5] and was a founding editor of the little magazine Baffling Combustions.^[6]

His books included Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Houses Down? (Solid Objects, 2018),The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015),The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013),^[7] The Source (Futurepoem Books, 2011),^[8] Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), and Inbox (BlazeVOX Books, 2006).^[9] His essays, reviews, creative nonfiction, criticism, and poetry appear widely, including journals such as Bookforum, Seneca Review, Boston Review, Fence, Hambone,^[10] and in the anthologies Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013),^[11] A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (University of Iowa Press, 2011),^[12] Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2011), Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press, 2010), and Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). He was interviewed in the spring of 2007 by Rain Taxi, for whom he wrote a chapbook review column at the time.^[13]

Critic Michael Robbins, in his award-winning essay^[14] "Ripostes," published by Poetry Magazine , referred to Gordon's work as "simply dead — nonresponsive, flatlined, toe-tagged, rotting,"^[15] while critic Stephanie Burt, writing for The Nation , noted how Gordon's poetry, which she called "delightful," is "reacting to big modern systems, above all to the system called capitalism, whose results and failures seem inescapable."^[16]

Gordon was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Gordon died in July 2022, aged 47.^[17] At the end of his life he lived in Denver.^[7]

• San Francisco State Poetry Center 2007 Book Award for Novel Pictorial Noise, 2009
• National Poetry Series Open Competition winner (selection by John Ashbery) for Novel Pictorial Noise, 2006
• Green Rose Prize for A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow, 2006
• Greg Gummer Poetry Award, selected by Robert Creeley, 2005
• Sawtooth Poetry Prize for The Area of Sound Called the Subtone, 2004
• Glosband Fellowship, selected by David Shapiro, 2004
• Jarrell Poetry Prize, selected by Carolyn Forché, 2000

• Gagnon on Gordon
• Colorado Poets Center site includes biographical material and poems
• Faculty page at CU-Boulder site includes links
• Noah Eli Gordon's "24 Cut Lits"

• American male poets
• 1975 births
• 2022 deaths
• Writers from Cleveland
• University of Colorado Boulder faculty
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American male writers

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