Poets & Critics Symposium Tuesday, March 7, & Wednesday, March 8, 9:45
am-5:00 pm Room 830 (8th floor of the Olympe de Gouges
Building)
Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
Reading & Discussion with Martin
Richet Friday, March 10, 7:00 pm centre international de poésie Marseille entre de la Vieille Charité 2,
rue de la Charité
13 236 Marseille Cedex 02
Events
organized in partnership with
Double Change, the House of Poetry of Nantes
& the International Center for Poetry, Marseile
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.