Ron Silliman



photo:©2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound

LINEbreak program with Charles Bernstein


Ron Silliman on Live at the Ear, a compilation from Elemenope Productions, 1994.


PhillyTalks Episode #3 with Jeff Derksen, January 21, 1998


Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, March 16, 2000
1. Introduction (11:02)
2. 'Paradise' (1:05:47)


Segue Series Reading at Double Happiness, May 13, 2000
1. introduction (1:48): MP3
2. Silliman's introduction (1:18): MP3

from the "You" section of The Alphabet
3. 17. (2:30): MP3
4. 18 (for Bob and Francie) (2:34): MP3
5. 26 (0:39): MP3
6. 38 (for Linh Dinh) (2:44): MP3
7. 52 (2:30): MP3

from the "VOG" section of The Alphabet
8 Silence of the Looms (5:14): MP3
9. Elegy for Larry Eigner (4:10): MP3
10. Spiderduck (11:59): MP3

complete reading (38:22): MP3



Silliman on Williams as part of the "9 Poets Read Themselves through Modernism" event at the Kelly Writers House, October 12, 2000: 25 minute RealAudio file


Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
September 21, 2004:
1. Introduction by Bob Perelman (6:07)
2. Albany (5:55)
3. Quindecagon (9:57): text, © Ron Silliman 1995, 2004
4. from Xing (20:48)
5. Woundwood (8:07)
6. Discussion (10:05)

Talk at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
"Theorizing" series, February 23, 2005:
"Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan's H.D. Book" (large file, about 1 1/2 hours)


Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 19, 2005
1. introduction (3:43): MP3
2. Silliman's opening comments (3:08): MP3
3. Quindecagon (8:38): MP3
4. Albany (5:26): MP3
5. on Under Albany (1:53): MP3

from Under Albany
6. "If a function of writing is to express the world" (4:40): MP3
7. "A benefit reading" (10:17): MP3
8. "Co-payment" (3:37): MP3

complete reading (42:07): MP3


Desert City reading at Chapel Hill, NC.
March 2nd, 2006.

Reading at Kutztown State University, Kutztown, PA.
March 6th, 2006.

Amy King interviews Ron Silliman on a miPOradio POdcast (1:24:25)
The Bowery Poetry Club, November 19, 2005


from A Celebration of George Oppen's 100th Birthday at the Kelly Writers House, April 7, 2008
"Three Regrets for George Oppen" (7:49): MP3

(read Silliman's essay on his blog)



Also of Interest at PennSound:

Silliman reading Philadelphia (2:45) for Episode 6 of Live at the Kelly Writers House
Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics [Presented at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, 2003]
    Friday reading
    Saturday reading
Discusion with Al Filreis and Bob Perelman after the Bob Cobbing celebration at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007 (5:31)

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