Tonight
Fairfax, VA
Rae Armantrout & Ron Silliman
Wednesday, September 23
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Student Union Building II, Rooms 5, 6, 7,
George Mason University,
4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
Photos of Rae & Ron © by Alan Bernheimer & Star Black
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.
