Silliman's Blog

Neal Cassady’s family
has created a website
in his honor

The new Origin
can be downloaded
as a PDF file
here

Includes
Andrew Schelling / Gail Sher,
Howard McCord, Ethan Paquin,
Brooks Johnson, Hettie Jones,
Clive Faust, Michael Rothenberg,
Duncan McNaughton, Carol Bergé,
Mikhail Horowitz, Kirpal Gordon,
Patricia Smith, Bobby Byrd,
Lisa Jarnot / Robert Duncan,
Joseph Massey, Cid Corman,
Barbara Moraff, Eliot Katz,
Andy Clausen, Ira Cohen,
Brenda Iijima, Sam Hamill,
Albert Saijo, Will Petersen,
Gary Snyder, Daisy Zamora,
Edward Sanders, Ron Padgett,
David Shapiro, Kent Johnson
& much more

Olson’s legacy in Buffalo
(by Mike Kelleher)

Fully Awake:
Experiencing Black Mountain College
(a profile of the new documentary
and more)

A poetry auction
to benefit
Frank Sherlock

A profile of rob mclennan

Edmonton poets
extend their reach
through podcasts

“Much of the most
successfully daring postwar fiction
has been by writers committed to
the long dramatic sentence….”

A classic response
to
National Poetry Month

And another

In Chicago,
Women & Children First
(a bookstore)
is on the brink

Why indies might not matter:
except for Eshleman’s Vallejo,
this “top ten list”
mostly shows
indie store owners
to be dismal readers

Shakespeare’s
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
in D.C.
and in Cambridge, MA

Hello, Silence, my old friend

Librarians vs. the “Patriot” Act

Teaching
the other
writing

English is no longer
the first language
of blogging
(& other aspects
of the web)

(side note:
Technorati tracks 70 million blogs
& ranks this one 7,119
in terms of the number
of blogs that link to it
-- which put this blog
into the top
0.0001
percent of all blogs)

A celebration of
Farid al-Din Attar,
Iranian master poet
of the 12^th century

Aaron Belz
reviews
Jayne O. Wayne

and
the ten Jens

Sonnet L’Abbé & Kenneth Sherman
reviewed

Profile of Julia O’Connor,
the very active poet laureate
of Sacramento

Missing Nikki Giovanni

Rafael Campo
posed
as the Anti-Pound

Natasha Trethewey
has won
the Pulitzer Prize
for poetry

The shortlist also included
Martín Espada
& David Wojahn

Houghton Mifflin
W.W. Norton
& U. of Pittsburgh Press
respectively

Nominating jurors
for poetry
included
Cynthia Huntington
Rafael Campo
(the Anti-Pound)
& Claudia Emerson

While Ornette Coleman
won for
music

(with a special citation
awarded to John Coltrane)

John Leonard
on
Kurt Vonnegut

A Vonnegut piece online

And another

“Thank you for being a cow.”

Carlin Romano
on
Kurt Vonnegut

“A rather daft
and kind old man”

This text,
”Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal”
by Naomi Shihab Nye
has become a blog & listserv
sensation in the last few weeks
with some reason

(I’ve seen it several times,
never with the same
formatting twice)