My page
on Poets.Org
from the
Academy of American Poets
§
Paul Auster
is useless,
so says
Paul Auster
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Geez,
why haven’t
American book awards
thought of this?
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Choreographer
Margy Jenkins
used to say
”The essence of dance
is fund-raising”
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Who made
Howl
an icon?
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One view
of the poetry scene
in Taiwan
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The $5 Pollock
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Books
vs.
personal budgets
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Prose
vs.
prose in comix
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Commentary
(the journal, that is)
on
The Shakespeare Wars
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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.
