Artie Gold was a Montreal-based Canadian poet who rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the circle of Montreal-based writers known as the Vehicule Poets—a group known for Dadaist/experimental writing and performance works. Characterized as one of the wildest and most daring of the Vehicule poets, Gold was influenced by the work of Jack Spicer and Frank O’Hara, his cats (to whom he was allergic) and his myriad eclectic autodidact interests. Gold died in 2007.