Noah Eli Gordon (born 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet. 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. 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 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013),A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line (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. He lives in Denver with Sommer Browning and their daughter Georgia
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."