Michael
McClure & Ron Silliman
Wednesday,
March 3,
St. Marks Poetry Project, NYC
Ron Silliman's life can be viewed in real-time on his weblog,
ronsilliman.blogspot.com (which has now been visited more than 100,000 times).
His 25th book, Woundwood, is forthcoming from Cuneiform Press. Others
include the anthology, In the American Tree, a book of essays and talks
on poetics, The New Sentence, and Ketjak, Tjanting, The
Age of Huts, What, (R), Demo to Ink, ABC, and Paradise.
He lives just south of
Michael McClure is a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright,
and the author of Hymns to St. Geryon, Dark
Brown, Ghost Tantras, Rare Angel, Scratching the Beat
Surface, Selected Poems, Huge Dreams, Rain Mirror, and
Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven, among many others. He published his
first book, Passage, in 1956, a year after the legendary Six Gallery
reading. He won an Obie for Josephine the Mouse
Singer, and his notorious play The Beard was shut down by police
after 14 consecutive nights in LA. He is a Professor at California College of
Arts and Crafts, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area hills with his wife,
the sculptor Amy Evans McClure. [
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The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue
New York City 10003
Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L.
www.poetryproject.com
Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members
