Giles Goodland & Ron Silliman Reading

Tuesday 3rd May, 7pm

• Giles Goodland
• Ron Silliman

32 Tavistock Square, London WC1

Blackbox Manifold 6

Blackbox Manifold 6 is now online.

ed. by Adam Piette & Alex Houen

Including tributes to Edwin Morgan, and poetry by:

• Niall Campbell
• Joseph Donohue
• Howie Good
• Chris Hardy
• Morgan Harlow
• Carla Harryman
• Christine Herzer
• Ishion Hutchinson
• Andy Jackson
• Michael Leong
• Rod Mengham
• Mary Noonan
• Frederick Pollack
• David Prater
• Rufo Quintavalle
• Ron Silliman
• Matthew Sweeney
• Jon Thompson
• John Welch
• J T Welsch

Poetry in 1960

Monday 6th December, 11pm GMT (6pm EST)

The Writers House celebrates what happened in poetry a half century ago with a symposium entitled Poetry in 1960. Symposium host and Writers House faculty director Al Filreis brings together eleven poets each to discuss a seminal work from that pivotal year - work by Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Cage, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Jackson Mac Low.

Featuring:

• Charles Bernstein
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Chris Funkhouser
• Michael S. Hennessey
• Kristen Gallagher
• Judith Goldman
• Erica Kaufman
• Mel Nichols
• Bob Perelman
• Ron Silliman
• Danny Snelson

Hosted by Al Filreis.

Watch the event live online.

Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Admission is free

Poetry is

In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.

via Ron Silliman

Silliman Vids

Ron Silliman has posted a selection of YouTube vids of poets past on his blog.

Ron Silliman's Reading: Birkbeck Poetics Centre, May 5th 2009

[wpvideo tlM1vsEx] Ron Silliman reads from the Alphabet to a large audience at Birkbeck. The event was organized by Dr Carol Watts of Birkbeck University and the Birkbeck Poetics Centre. On the video Dr Carol Watts introduces Ron Silliman. At the end of the video is a section of the Q&A session that occurred after the reading. Thanks to Birkbeck for allowing us to distribute this video.

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Ron Silliman's Talk: Birkbeck Poetics Centre, May 5th 2009

[wpvideo 03ypem8l] Ron Silliman talks on poetry and blogging to a mainly postgraduate audience at Birkbeck. The event was organized by Dr Carol Watts of Birkbeck University and the Birkbeck Poetics Centre. On the video Professor William Rowe introduces Ron Silliman. At the end of the video is a section of the Q&A session that occurred after the talk. There is also an audio file (MP3, 1hr 42min, 46MB) of the entire talk, including the final section of the Q&A missing from the video. Thanks to Birkbeck for allowing us to film and distribute the Talk.

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