Both Deborah Ager and P.J. Taylor chronicled the Mabel Dodge Poetry Festival. I don’t think either intends their commentary to be read as satire, but it’s difficult not to read them that way. At least until one stops to think about just how much manipulative malpractice is being carried out on stage by people who – in every sense of the word – never get their own feet muddy.
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.
