Frosty, the snow job
(what’s wrong with Irish poetry)
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Designing book covers
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“The only people writing
should be those who must write,
I scrawl in a notebook
as I sit on the side of the running bath
while my young son
makes duck noises
at me.”
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Three Palestinian poets
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The ambiguous William Empson
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UC sues Derrida’s family
over archive
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Penguin’s novel novel
is a wiki
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.
