Ralph Stanley had heart surgery last Monday.
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
with which we concur, heartily.
& Chet Helms passed away. Not even for the first time.
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Ralph Stanley had heart surgery last Monday.
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
with which we concur, heartily.
& Chet Helms passed away. Not even for the first time.

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.