(photo by Jude Ornstein)
A long reading in two sets
at EyeMediae, Ann Arbor, mid-80s
(Published in Blue Books as “Voice Overs”)
Reading at Hallwalls in Buffalo, 2008
Erika Staiti’s Rice-Paper-Moonlight
(Combining an improvised reading
by Benson from 2003,
a night-time train ride
& the song Wow!
by Jackie-O Motherfucker)
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.
