Today in Rotterdam
2:30 PM
@ Tsjechov & Co
(The Chekov Café)
A Meeting of Poets
Rotterdam & the World
B. Zwaal, Chus Pato, Hédi Kaddour,
Inuo Taguchi, Jan Lauwereyns , K. Satchidanandan,
K. Schippers, Karen Solie, L.K. Holt,
Márcio-André, Najwan Darwish, Ron Silliman,
Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Tomaž Šalamun, Umar Timol,
Vahe Arsen
8:00 PM
@ Main Auditorium
Rotterdam City Theater
Opening Ceremony:
And Today I Pray
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.
