I took
yesterday off as part of my Blog Less, Blog
Better campaign & noted that, as has happened a few times before, days –
especially during the middle of the week – on which I fail to blog at all often
receive the heaviest traffic. There must be a few people who are checking back
several times just to see if I posted later than usual. Nope. Wednesday was
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.
