A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Charles Bernstein & Yunte Huang
discussing Charlie Chan:
The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective
& His Rendezvous with American History
at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Labels: Film, history, Talks, Yunte Huang
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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