A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Rick Prelinger:
Destruction of the Panopticon:
William E. Worden’s
The Observatory in Ruins, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (1906)
Having once been
Sweeney Observatory on Strawberry Hill
in the middle of Stow Lake
Prelinger talks today on appropriation –
freeganism vs. the archive –
at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia
Labels: photography, social history
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.
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