A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
At more than 8 hours & over 60 musicians, Anthony Braxton’s Sonic Genome Project is my kind of song. Its world performance premiere came in Vancouver on January 28th – the slightly less than half an hour that these three clips capture give just a hint of the entire event. All of the links in this paragraph are worth reading (&/or hearing / viewing) to deepen the experience. I wish I could have been there.
Labels: Anthony Braxton, Jazz
Philadelphia, March 19 & 20
Kelly Writers House Fellow
San Francisco, April 8
SF Center for Psychoanalysis
Cal State Long Beach, April 16
43rd International Poetry Festival
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
June 12-17
US Poets in Mexico
Mérida, Yucatán
January 5-12, 2013
Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. Silliman was the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He received the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation in 2010. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley, although he now lives in
NB: This blog receives a steady stream of review copies
of books of poetry, fiction, criticism & theory. While less than ten
percent of these books are ultimately reviewed here, it should be presumed that
any book review on this weblog is of a volume originally obtained as a review copy.
© 2002 - 2012 by Ron Silliman
