We Knew a Man:
Robert Creeley Memorial Reading
Saturday, May 7,
MIT
Cambridge, M’ass
Joel Sloman, Dasha Lymar, David Rivard, Evan Ziporyn, Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright, Michael Gizzi, Bill Howe, Louisa Solano, Joseph Torra, Martin Espada, John Landry, Ruth Lepson, Everett Hoagland, Irene Aebi, Michael Franco, Jim Dunn, Peter Gizzi, Elizabeth Willis, Clark Coolidge, Jorie Graham, Gerrit Lansing, Fanny Howe, William Corbett
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.
