“This is your brain on poetry.”
– Huffington Post
“The Grand Piano continues to amaze...” – David Meltzer
“...language, history, textuality, and temporality”
– Robin Tremblay-McGaw
“Obsessively readable” – Mark Scroggins
A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
“This is your brain on poetry.”
– Huffington Post
“The Grand Piano continues to amaze...” – David Meltzer
“...language, history, textuality, and temporality”
– Robin Tremblay-McGaw
“Obsessively readable” – Mark Scroggins

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.