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(warning: may cause ennui)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: black; mso-themetint: 242;">Well, no, </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.collegian.com/2012/10/07/poetry-is-dead-and-academics-killed-it-but-at-least-its-soul-lives-on/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: black; mso-themetint: 242;">academics did</span></a><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: black; mso-themetint: 242;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .25in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/275303292587111/"><span style="color: black; 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text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">,</span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><br> potentially shutting down press &amp; low-rez MFA program<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">The </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577547114169410338.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Bowery Poetry Club</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> closes<o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.xpoetics.blogspot.com/2012/07/poetry-of-1980s.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Robin Tremblay-McGaw</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> on the Poetry of the 80&#8217;s Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Close-reading aloud: </span><a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/without-house-and-ground-poemtalk-56"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; 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<li><a href='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman'>Electronic Poetry Center</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.facebook.com/ron.silliman'>Facebook</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Silliman.php'>PennSound</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://ronsillimanbibliography.blogspot.com/'>Silliman's Bibliography</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://twitter.com/ronsilliman'>Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.ubu.com/contemp/silliman/index.html'>Ubuweb</a></li>
<li><a href='https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0075.html'>UC San Diego Archives</a></li>
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<br /><img alt="" src="file%3A///Users/Lynn/Desktop/silliman2a.jpg" / /><img alt="" src="file%3A///Users/Lynn/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" / /><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">RON SILLIMAN</span> has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(c) 2002-2019 by Ron Silliman.
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