The opening performances from
the 3rd international Text Festival
in Bury, Lancashire,
April 30, 2011
with Marco Giovenale,
Helen White & Maniek Darge, Márton Koppány,
Helmet Lemke & Hans Specht, and Sarah Sanders
The piece by Helmut & Hans
is a small excerpt
from a 4½-hour performance
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.
