Born in Pasco, Washington in 1946, Ron Silliman is known for his post-avant poetry blog (which garnered an impressive 2 million views in 2009) and involvement in the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement. Pursuing both a career as a computer market analyst and a generously lauded poet, he was the 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts, and winner…
The spectrum on which poetry exists is vast, encompassing everything from nursery rhymes to T. S. Eliot’s dazzling, yet over-annotated masterpieces. And that, I believe, is part of what makes poetry so great – the inexhaustible variety of verse that now graces the pool of American literature. However, a poetry class at a high…
“Our footprints feeling / over us / thirstily … ” Posted in Post Road Starbucks, Darien, Connecticut.
Born in Korat, Thailand, Jenny Boully is a celebrated poet of contemporary poetry who grew up in Texas, and studied at Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame. She has authored three books of great acclaim, “The Body” in 2002, “The Book of Beginnings and Endings” in 2002, and “[one love affair]*” in 2006.…
I would call myself a reader of the night. I’ve found that reading poetry in the sleepy hours of the post-dinner haze, with the ever present scent of chamomile tea, provides me with a better angle to sink into the lines, to completely submerge myself in the strangeness of verse. When the world…
