Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, an editor for The Volta, and an assistant professor in the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press.
His recent books include The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013), The Source (Futurepoem Books, 2011), Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), and Inbox (BlazeVOX Books, 2006). 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 (West West Norton & Company, 2013), A Broken Thing: Poets on the Lincolnshire (University of Iowa Press, 2011), 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). An advocate of small press culture, he penned a column for five years on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: review of books, ran Braincase Press, and was a founding editor of the little magazine Baffling Combustions.
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.
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.".
