Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946 in Pasco, Washington) is a contemporary American poet. Events 642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pasco (ˈpæskoʊ is a city in and the County seat of Franklin County, Washington, United States. The poetry of the United States arose first during its beginnings as the constitutionally unified Thirteen colonies (although before this a strong He has written and edited 26 books to date. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " He has now begun writing a new poem entitled Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator.
Silliman sees his poetry as being part of a single poem or lifework, which he calls Ketjak. Ketjak is also the name of the first poem of The Age of Huts. If and when completed, the entire work will consist of The Age of Huts (1974-1980), Tjanting (1979-1981), The Alphabet (1979-2004), and Universe (2005-). [1]
Ron Silliman's fame and notoriety have grown considerably since 2002, due in large part to his popular and controversial weblog: Silliman's Blog. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of Debuting on August 29, 2002 to little fanfare and without expectations of an audience, it is now (arguably) the most influential English-language blog on the web that is devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics. By August 2006, Silliman's Blog had reached 800,000 hits. By early November 2006, Silliman's Blog had welcomed its 900,000th visitor[2]. In early February 2007, Silliman's Blog had surpassed 1,000,000 hits. By the end of February 2008, Silliman observed on his blog that the "1,500,000th visitor will click on through. " [3]
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Life
In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, but left without attaining a degree. Merritt College is a two-year Community college located in the hills of Oakland in Alameda County, California. San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public University The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley He has subsequently taught in the Graduate Writing Program at San Francisco State University, at the University of California at San Diego, at New College of California and, in shorter stints, at Naropa University[4] and Brown University. The University of California San Diego (popularly known as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public Research university in San Diego, California New College of California was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President Father John Leary Naropa University is a private Liberal arts University in Boulder, Colorado, the United States, which was founded in 1974 Brown University is a highly esteemed private University located in Providence, Rhode Island and is a member of the Ivy League.
Silliman has worked as a political organizer, a lobbyist, an ethnographer, a newspaper editor, a director of development, and as the executive editor of the Socialist Review. Lobbying includes all attempts to influence Legislators and officials whether by other legislators constituents or organized groups Ethnography ( Greek ethnos = people and graphein = writing is a genre of writing that uses Fieldwork to provide a descriptive The Socialist Review is the monthly magazine of the Socialist Workers Party (UK. While in San Francisco, he served on numerous community boards including the 1980 Census Oversight Committee, the Arson Task Force of the San Francisco Fire Department, and the State Department of Health's Task Force on Health Conditions in Locale Detention Facilities. After living in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 40 years, Silliman moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1995 where he resides with his wife Krishna and two sons, Colin and Jesse. Silliman works as a market analyst in the computer industry.
Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts & a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence Silliman is one of the poets memorialized in Berkeley's Addison Anthology, a walk containing plaques recognizing poets and authors in his home town.
Language Poetry and Critical Writing
While Silliman has come to be associated with the Language poets, he came of age under the sign of Donald Allen's New American Poetry (1960) [5]. The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name are an Avant garde group or tendency in United States Donald Merriam Allen (b Iowa, 1912 — d San Francisco, August 29, 2004) influential editor, Publisher, and Translator Silliman was first published in Berkeley, in 1965. In the 1960s he was published by journals associated with what he calls the School of Quietude, such as Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, Southern Review and Poetry. Silliman found such early acceptance to be a sign of the lack of standards or rigor characteristic of that literary tendency and began looking for alternatives.
Silliman edited a newsletter, Tottels (1970-81)[6], that was one of the early venues for Language Poetry. The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name are an Avant garde group or tendency in United States However, it was "The Dwelling Place," a feature of nine poets that Silliman did for Alcheringa in 1975 that Silliman himself describes as his "first attempt to write about language poetry". [7] In 1976 & '77, he co-curated a reading series with Tom Mandel, at the Grand Piano[8], a coffee house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, continuing a series originally founded by Barrett Watten. Thomas Poeller Mandel (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a contemporary American poet whose work is often associated with the Language poets Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, US, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets Barrett James Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and Educator often associated with the Language This series was followed by one at the Tassajara Bakery, co-curated with Bob Perelman, and a series combining poets with performance artists at The Farm, co-curated with Jill Scott. Bob Perelman (born in 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher The Farm, located at the corner of Army Street (currently Cesar Chavez and Potrero Avenue in San Francisco, California, was a Community center from 1974-1986
Silliman's mature critical writing dates to the early/mid-1970s when he was asked to discuss his thinking about the role of reference in poetry, leading to the essay "Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World," which first appeared in the journal Art Con. Soon thereafter he edited a special issue of the magazine Margins devoted to the work of poet Clark Coolidge and began to give talks and contribute essays on a regular basis thereafter. Clark Coolidge ( February 26, 1939 &ndash) is an American poet born in Providence Rhode Island. As was mentioned above, Silliman was influenced by (and subsequently has written extensively on) the "New American Poetry", referring to the poets who first appeared in Donald Allen's groundbreaking anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960. Today, those same (but then relatively unknown) poets included in this anthology are now recognizable or precedent figures in the current cultural landscape.
As a result of his critical work since the 1970s, several of the concepts introduced by Silliman, such as The New Sentence, the School of Quietude and post-avant have become widely used. [9]. In 1986, Silliman's anthology In the American Tree, one of the foremost collections of American language poetry, was published by the National Poetry Foundation[10]. The National Poetry Foundation (NPF is a book publisher founded in 1971 by Carroll F
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External links
- Poem by Silliman at Milk Magazine
- Ron Silliman on Poets.org Silliman's biography, and text of his poems "Albany" and "What"
- Ron Silliman page at Modern American Poetry with online poems, articles, interviews
- Silliman's Blog A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. For the Canadian political magazine see This Magazine. This is a poetry journal associated with what would later be called Bruce Andrews (born April 1, 1948) is an American poet who was one of the key figures associated with the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, critic editor and teacher Ray DiPalma (born in New Kensington PA in 1943 is an American poet and Visual artist who has published more than 40 collections of poetry graphic work Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian Poet and Scholar who was a professor at York University. Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The National Poetry Foundation (NPF is a book publisher founded in 1971 by Carroll F For the American political activist see Michael Davidson (politician. Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is a United States Poet, essayist translator and publisher Barrett James Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and Educator often associated with the Language Karen Mac Cormack (born Luanshya, Zambia, 1956 is a contemporary experimental poet Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. Bob Perelman (born in 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher Barrett James Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and Educator often associated with the Language Steve Benson may refer to Steve Benson (cartoonist Steve Benson (poet Stephen Allen Benson (1816-1865 president Carla Harryman (born 1952 is an American Poet, Essayist, and Playwright often associated with the Language poets. Tom Mandel is the name of Tom Mandel (futurist (1946&ndash1995 American futurist and author Tom Mandel (musician, American keyboardist Rae Armantrout (born 13 April 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Kit Robinson (born May 17, 1949) is an American poet and translator Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is a United States Poet, essayist translator and publisher Ted Pearson (born 1948 in Palo Alto California) is an American poet.
- Silliman at UbuWEB, online books
- Interview with The Argotist Online
- "Torque" & The New Sentence Silliman discusses background & conception of his influential "manifesto" The New Sentence
- Ron Silliman, making poetry, unmaking rules review of The Age of Huts (compleat) by Andrew Ervin, at philly. com, June 24, 2007
- The Grand Piano website devoted to the 10 volumes of "Collective Autobiography" by 10 of the so-called "West Coast" group of Language poets, including Silliman, which began serial publication in November 2006.
Notes
- ^ In September 2006, Silliman indicates he's been doing " a lot of writing, esp. on a section of Universe called "Silence and Prose" ". link here~>Silliman's Blog 05Sept06
- ^ In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 link here Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002-03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)".
- ^ "These are not the sort of numbers I normally associate with poetry..." Silliman observed this phenomenon further, writing that: "It took this blog two years & five months – from August 2002 until the end of January 2005 – to receive its first 250,000 visits. But it took only three years & two months – just nine more months – to receive the next quarter million and hit the half-million threshold. That ramp upward got steeper still as it took just 16 months to receive the next 500,000 and hit the million visit mark. That was February of last year – sometime Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, the 1,500,000th visitor will click on through. . . "
- ^ Most recently, in June 2006, Silliman taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa in Boulder, Colorado
- ^ Ron Silliman discusses Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry from Silliman's Blog: June 11, 2007. The Jack Kerouac School was founded at Naropa University in 1974 by Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman Naropa University is a private Liberal arts University in Boulder, Colorado, the United States, which was founded in 1974 Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States Writes Silliman: "unquestionably the most influential single anthology of the last century. It’s a great book, an epoch-making one in many ways. "
- ^ available on-line at the Eclipse archive, link here: Tottel's Magazine
- ^ Silliman's Blog: weblog entry for Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Silliman writes that "my afterword to that selection, “Surprised by Sign: Notes on Nine,” was my first attempt to write about language poetry". Though published in 1975, he did the editing for Alcheringa in 1973: "The nine poets included Bruce Andrews, Barbara Baracks, Clark Coolidge, visual poet Lee DeJasu, Ray Di Palma, Robert Grenier, David Melnick, Barrett Watten & your humble correspondent"
- ^ Of further interest would be the publication in 2006 of the first volume of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography. (Detroit, MI: Mode A/This Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9790198-0-X) -- this work is described as an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco. The project will consist of 10 volumes in all. Along with Silliman, the other 9 writers are: Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson. Bob Perelman (born in 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher Barrett James Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and Educator often associated with the Language Steve Benson may refer to Steve Benson (cartoonist Steve Benson (poet Stephen Allen Benson (1816-1865 president Carla Harryman (born 1952 is an American Poet, Essayist, and Playwright often associated with the Language poets. Thomas Poeller Mandel (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a contemporary American poet whose work is often associated with the Language poets Kit Robinson (born May 17, 1949) is an American poet and translator Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is a United States Poet, essayist translator and publisher Rae Armantrout (born 13 April 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Ted Pearson (born 1948 in Palo Alto California) is an American poet. This book further describes itself as follows:
. More information about the project can be found at its website, http://www.thegrandpiano.org.“ It takes its name from a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976-79 the authors took part in a reading and performance series. The writing project, begun in 1998, was undertaken as an online collaboration, first via an interactive web site and later through a listserv ” - ^ But also as a result of the impact of his influential weblog
- ^ Great Anthology: In the American Tree article from the Academy of American Poets website
- ^ Silliman reveals publication on his blog
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