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Ron Silliman
@silliman.bsky.social
Poet in Springfield, PA.
Lecturer @ U of Pennsylvania,
Author of 50+ books

My blog had 5 million visits before it was
unilaterally deleted by Gurgle
(a copy can be found at the
Electronic Poetry Center)

rsillima@yahoo.com
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#20
Space, Clark Coolidge
My cousin, Bob Cox, was one of the 25 fatalities in the 1991 Oakland firestorm. My heart goes out to everyone in LA.
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
December 24, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Had Colin & Katie over for dinner last night
Today I keep thinking it's the day AFTER Christmas
because in one way, it is
December 23, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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#20
Space, Clark Coolidge
December 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
First real snow in a year
Too warm to stick
but we'll see about when the sun goes down
December 20, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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#19
John Ashbery, Three Poems
(I told John this once, he replied
"I thought it sank without a trace")
December 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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#18
Jack Spicer, Book of Magazine Verse
(First heard Robin Blaser read this on Jack's birthday
@ the Rambam in Berkeley, 1966)
December 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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#17
Charles Olson, Maximus Poems
(The Secret? O
was on the spectrum)
December 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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#16
David Bromige, My Poetry
December 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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#15
Robert Creeley, Pieces
underappreciated masterpiece
December 15, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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William Carlos Williams, Spring & All
(the one poet who is here twice)
December 14, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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#13
Claudia Rankine, Citizen
still the best book of the 21st century
December 13, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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#12
Charles Bernstein, Controlling Interests
December 12, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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#11
Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan
December 11, 2024 at 8:30 PM

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#10
Lyn Hejinian, My Life
December 10, 2024 at 3:34 PM
40 years ago today
I took my last drink
December 10, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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#9
Robert Kelly, Finding the Measure
December 9, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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#8
Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak
December 8, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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#7
Philip Whalen, On Bear's Head

"Never trust a poet who keeps Phil Whalen more than arm's length from their pillow." Clifford Burke circa 1965
December 7, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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#6
Rae Armantrout, Extremities
December 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Has anyone written on the chapter "Inside" at the end of Robert Gluck's About ED? It's a brilliant performance.

Wrong Gluck got the Nobel.
December 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
RIP Jacques Roubaud
December 5, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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#5
Louis Zukofsky, "A" 22-23
December 5, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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#4
Robert Grenier, Sentences
December 4, 2024 at 4:23 PM