John Ashbery,
poet laureate of MTV
§
Blogging
and book promotion
§
Kerouac, the author
vs.
Kerouac, the hype
§
Robert Pinsky
ad Hoch
§
Woody Guthrie’s
new music
§
A memoir
of gay lit
in the Village
§
While I was away,
both Grace Paley
&
Mary Rising Higgins
passed away
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.
