My first readings in
are thanks to
The Text Festival,
a 12-week program
centered in Bury,
Saturday, May 2
7:30 PM
The Met Arts Centre
Market St, Bury
with Claus van Bebber, Hester Reeve, Catriona Glover
& more
Tuesday, May 5
7:00 PM
Birkbeck, Room
30 Russell Square
(A reading & conversation)
*I will be helping Geof Huth
with his reading
on May 1
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.
