Friday, May 11
At the Last Word Bookshop
A Mad Poets Society event, hosted by Leonard Gontarek
With Christina Davis
This will be my first reading from the new The Age of Huts (compleat) since its publication. Needless to say, I’m excited. Penn graduate Christina Davis works at Poets House & is on the board at Alice James Books, which published her
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.
