For the time being I am calling the three new kittens God, Yankee Stadium and Canada. However the next three subscribers to the print edition of Unmuzzled OX...
I'm just checking to see if I am now hooked up to this conversation properly. I've been living in London for the past five years, three of those years writing...
When I did my dissertation at Columbia, I found the sociology of the Poetry Project as peculiar as its poetry. The Poetry Project is located in an Episcopalian...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Laugh1ng M1rrors Puk1ng: Stacy Doris reinvents the world A note on comments On turning 60 Philip K Dick &...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS The plastic poetry of Jessica Smith (the most ambitious book of 2006) Steve Reich at 70 and other notes Celery...
Wednesday was the Catholic Feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation. Mary's body is up there physically in heaven. Jesus Christ is also bodily up...
The Assumption actually was Tuesday 15 August. I met a nun on the Ferry that morning. She was beautiful in a chaste and hardy manner. Anybody healthy twenty...
I had locked myself out of my office at 105 Hudson and was sitting outside waiting for the super to let me reenter when one of the teenagers who live in the...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Remembering Carol Berge 16 links worth checking (from Nigerian poetry to Donald Hall to the work of John Tranter)...
Little Miss Sunshine and Napoleon Dynamite end in triumphant dances. Both films portray outsiders. In Napoleon Dynamite, an outsider, a Mexican kid named...
Poets Hoodoo Collage Join curator Valery Oisteanu for a closing party and collaga-ganza at Tompkins Square Library Gallery and take home a collage! Wednesday,...
Sunday, September 10th, 5:30 – 7:30 : I myself personally & in person will be reading at High Chai (18 Avenue B, East Village) in Mike Graves's renewed...
Fear is what quickens me, said James Wright. And me too. The news guys said Hurricane Ernesto was coming to New York. Yippee, I thought. I had planned to go to...
The National Weather Service has named later storms this year Karl, Mao and Vladimir. ... guys ... had ... a.k.a. ... would ... and ... the ... identity ... ...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ (note new email address – rsillima AT yahoo DOT com) RECENT POSTS The ear of Laura Elrick Cleaning the uncleanable (nuclear...
MiX’D TriX Writers who Do Art Artists who Write At Tompkins Square Library Gallery Please join us for a Commingling of the Disciplines Opening: Wednesday,...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ (back at the old email: silliman AT gmail DOT com) ************************************* reading Friday 9/15 in NYC with...
The new movie about John Lennon should make anyone paranoid about opposing Bush. I was surprised by one thing in the film. The film seems to indicate that the...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ***************************************** reading Tuesday 9/19 in Philadelphia with Eileen R. Tabios at The Bubble House, 3404...
If the Pope apologizes for insulting Islam, is he still infallible? Of course, as The Times put it, it's really a case of "German professor meets sound-bite...
Don't forget that in 2000, as Cardinal Ratzinger, the current pope was lead author of an official Vatican document "dominus iesus" which stated that other...
Obviously both Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush are psychotic killers. And most of the people in this world would, of course, agree that Bush has done more...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS The enigmatic poetics of Beverly Dahlen On poetry in Iran and Nigeria Who needs to read? Eileen Tabios channels...
MiX'D TRiX FiNALE Your humble MC and Curator Jeffrey Cyphers Wright invites you to a reading and final closing party for MiX'D TRiX. Saturday, Sept. 30 2 to...
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Neo-modernism in the novellas of Debra Di Blasi John Ashbery reading in a coffee house in Providence R.I. A Flarf...
Lisa Robertson, wife of the painter Keith Donovan, is a friend and currently teaching at Berkely. Ron, why don't you open your site to comments from people who...
You do not have to be a blogger to respond to the comments on my blog. You do have to register with Blogger.com. That is a step that became necessary because...
