A celebration of the
poetry & criticism of
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
With Bob Perelman, Libbie Rifkin,
Eric Keenaghan, Ron Silliman,
Rachel Blau DuPlessis,
Jena Osman, Brian Teare,
Holly Bittner, C.A. Conrad,
Thomas Devaney, Sarah Dowling,
Ryan Eckes, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga,
Pattie McCarthie, Michelle Taransky,
Heather Thomas, Kevin Varrone
& Eli Goldblatt
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.
