Ron Silliman forthcoming events
January
24, Saturday,
February
7, Saturday,
March
3, Wednesday,
“Poor
Chicago.” Here I come. I can’t believe that making such a flip
& ultimately dumb remark on this blog got me an invitation to come &
read – with Stacy Szymaszek no less! On the other hand, those Chicagoans are no
dummies – they invited me for the third week of January!
With the
Eastern seaboard as cold as it has been the past few weeks, tho,
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.
