I got a few notes about my absences the past few
days – been traveling & my access to the web has been constricted. When I
was online yesterday, the Blogger “publisher” server was down.
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I want to say simply today
how sad I am at the sudden death yesterday of Ric Caddel at the age of 53. I never got to meet the man in
person, but as editor, poet & correspondent, he was a marvel. The volume of
British & Irish poetry since 1970 that he co-edited with
RON SILLIMAN 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.
