Trendspotting: Poetry’s New Thing
with Brian Teare
@ Dahlak Paradise
4708 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia
A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Rae Armantrout,
California poet, national recognition
California poet “stunned”
“…and then boom, she gets a phone call…”
“the ability / to revise / what I’m waiting for”
Armantrout quoted on All Things Considered
(about 2:20 into this 3-minute clip)
“I was expecting Armantrout’s poetry
to be very inaccessible…”
“Big win” for UCSD’s Armantrout
Who is Rae Armantrout?
16 minutes of Versed
from the 92nd Street Y
Women & the Pulitzer: the odds
Lucia Perillo was a poetry finalist
The Letters, Drama & Music jurors
for the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes
Much drama over the drama prize
Pulitzer drama award “blew it”
Did Pulitzer committee “sell out?”
How the drama vote went down
Bellevue Hospital
publishes Pulitzer novel
A tale of Paul Harding’s Tinkers

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.