Curriculum Vitae

Ron Silliman
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BOOKS
Poetry
Crow, Ithaca House, Ithaca, NY, 1971
Mohawk, Doones Press, Bowling Green, OH, 1973
Nox, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1974
Ketjak, This Press, San Francisco, CA, 1978
Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, Tuumba, Berkeley, CA 1978; Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center/Boog
Literature, published as number two of the Whitman Notables series, Camden, NJ, 2002
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di Palma and Steve McCaffery),
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, New York, NY, 1980
Tjanting, The Figures, Berkeley, CA, 1981; Salt, Cambridge, UK / Applecross, Western Australia,
Australia, 2002
Bart, Potes & Poets Press, Hartford, CT, 1982
ABC, Tuumba, Berkeley, CA, 1983
Paradise, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1985 (1985 Poetry Center Book Award)
The Age of Huts, Roof Books, New York, 1986
Lit, Potes & Poets Press, Hartford, CT, 1987
What, The Figures, Great Barrington, MA, 1988
Manifest, Zasterle Press, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 1990
Leningrad (collaboration with Michael Davidson, Lyn Hejinian, and Barrett Watten), Mercury House, San
Francisco, CA, 1991
Demo to Ink, Chax Press, Tucson, AZ, 1992
Toner, Potes & Poets Press, E. Hartford, CT, 1992
Jones, Generator Press, Mentor, OH, 1993
N/O, Roof Press, New York, NY, 1994 (e-book edition, 2002)
Xing, Meow Press, Buffalo, NY, 1996; Factory School Books, Ithaca, NY, 2004
MultiPlex, (includes two works by Karen Mac Cormack), Wild Honey Press, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland,
1998
,Drogue Press, New York, NY, 1999
Sunset Debris, Ubu Editions, New York, NY, 2002 (e-book)
2197, Ubu Editions, New York, NY, 2002 (e-book)
The Chinese Notebook, Ubu Editions, New York, 2004 (e-book)
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di Palma and Steve McCaffery),
Eclipse, Princeton, NJ, 2004
Woundwood, Cuneiform Press, Buffalo, NY, 2004 (e-book)
The Age of Huts (compleat), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2007
The Alphabet, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2008

Criticism
The New Sentence, Roof Books, New York, NY, 1987

Anthology
In the American Tree, National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1986; second edition,
2002

Memoirs
Under Albany, Salt, Cambridge, UK / Applecross, Western Australia, Australia, 2004
The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography (ten volumes), co–authored with Bob
Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian,
Rae Armantrout & Ted Pearson, Mode A, Detroit, MI, 2006–2010

WEBLOG
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Silliman‘s Blog: A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics, 2002-present (3,000,000 visit
October 2010)

EDITOR
Literary
―15 Young Poets of the San Francisco–Bay Area,‖ (David Melnick, co–editor), Chicago Review, Vol. 21,
No. 4, Summer, 1970, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, pp. 71–136
Tottel‗s, Nos. 1–18, 1970–81, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
―The Dwelling Place: 9 Poets,‖ Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1975, Boston University, Boston,
MA, pp. 104–120
A Symposium on Clark Coolidge: Stations 5, Winter, 1978, Milwaukee, WI
―Realism,‖ Ironwood, No. 20, 1983, Tucson, AZ, pp. 61–121

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In the American Tree, National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1986;

Non-Literary
Labyrinth, Committee for Prisoner Humanity and Justice, San Rafael, CA, 1973–6
Tenderloin Times, Central City Hospitality House, San Francisco, CA, 1978–81
Socialist Review, Center for Social Research and Education, Berkeley, CA, 1986–1991 (executive editor
1986–1989)
Unfinished Business: 20 Years of Socialist Review, Verso Press, London, 1991 (co–editor)

EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Collective, Socialist Review (1986-91)
Board of Advisory Editors, U. of Alabama Series on Contemporary Poetics (1998-present)
Board of Directors, Chax Press (2000-2003)

HONORS
Joan Lee Yang Award for Poetry, UC Berkeley, 1970 and 1971
Pushcart Prize, Yonkers, NY, 1979
Artist in the Community Grant, California Arts Council, 1979 and 1980
Literary Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979 and 2003
Poetry Center Book Award, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1985
Pew Fellow in the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
BloggerForum.com Top Ten Weekly Blogs, Week of November 30, 2003
Best American Poetry, New York, NY, 2002, 2004
Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2002
Blog of the Day, December 6, 2002
Book of the Year, 2004, Small Press Traffic, 2005
2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere
Levinson Prize, Poetry Foundation, 2010

TEACHING
Naropa University, 1994, 2006
One-week summer writing program courses in poetry

Brown University, February 2000

Writer in residence; one-week class in poetry

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New College of California, Fall 1982
Graduate course in the prose poem

University of California at San Diego, Spring 1982

Visiting lecturer; two one-quarter undergraduate courses, one in poetry, one in fiction

San Francisco State University, Fall 1981

Graduate course in contemporary poetry

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
California Institute of Integral Studies, 1982-86
San Francisco, CA
Director, Public Relations and Development

Responsible for marketing graduate school of psychology and liberal studies to prospective students –
enrollment doubled during tenure. Created development program, including annual fundraising
campaigns and major donor development. Responsible for all media, community and government
relations as the school located, acquired and moved to a new campus. Responsible for all college
publications, including catalog, schedules and newsletters. Responsible for major public events. Worked
closely with the academic dean and the vice-president for alumni affairs. Reported directly to the
president of the institution. Participated in WASC accreditation review of other colleges.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gartner, Inc., 2000-2010
Stamford, Connecticut
Senior Analyst; Principal Analyst

IBM / Technology Service Solutions, 1995-2000

Wayne and West Chester, PA
Industry Market Planner; Senior Market Analyst; Service Marketing Specialist

ComputerLand / Vanstar, 1989-95

Pleasanton, CA
Services Marketing Manager; Manager, Sales Tools; Managing Editor, Service Publications; Services
Marketing Specialist

Central City Hospitality House, 1979-81

San Francisco, CA
Director of Outreach; Writer in Residence; Editor, Tenderloin Times

Tenderloin Ethnographic Project, 1978-79

San Francisco, CA
Researcher; Editor

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Committee for Prisoner Humanity and Justice, 1972-77
San Rafael, CA
Director of Education; Caseworker

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Poetry & criticism in anthologies
Selected Poems from the Academy of American Poets Poetry Contest, 1968 and 1969, San Francisco
State University, San Francisco, CA, 1969
Alphabet Anthology, edited by Joyce Holland, X Press, Iowa City, IA, 1973
None of the Above, edited by Michael Lally, Crossing Press, Trumansburg, NY, 1976
Omens from the Flight of Birds, edited by Stephen Vincent, Momo‘s Press, San Francisco, CA, 1977
The Big House, edited by Michael Slater, Ailanthus Press, New York, NY, 1978
The Pushcart Prize: IV, edited by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, Yonkers, NY, 1979
The Poets‘ Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Andre, Unmuzzled Ox, New York, NY, 1979
The Poetry Reading, edited by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig, Momo‘s Press, San Francisco, CA,
1981
A Century in Two Decades, edited by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1982
Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1983
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, Southern Illinois
University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1984
Postmoderno E Letteratura, edited by Peter Carravetta and Paoloi Spedicato, Studi Bompiani, Milano,
Italy, 1984
Writing/Talks, edited by Bob Perelman, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1985
Alles und Noch Viel Mehr: Das Poetische ABC, edited by G.J. Lischka, Bentelli, Bern, Switzerland, 1985
21 + 1: Poetes americains d‘aujourd‘hui, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet–Journoud,
Delta, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1986
21 + 1: American Poets Today, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet–Journoud, Delta,
Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1986 (English companion volume)
In the American Tree, edited by Ron Silliman, National Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME, 1986
Postmodern Fiction: A Bio–Bibliographic Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, Greenwood Press, Westport,
CT, 1986
Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, conducted and edited by Larry
McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1987
The Line in Post–Modern Poetry, edited by Henry Sayre and Robert Frank, U. of Illinois Press, 1988
Contemporary American Poet–Critics, edited by James McCorkle, Wayne State University Press, 1988
Festival de Tarascon: Cinquieme Recontres Internationales de Poesie Contemporaine, A.G.R.I.P.P.A.,
1989
The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Social Policy, edited by Charles Bernstein, Roof Books, New
York, NY, 1990

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World‘s Edge, edited by Sherry Reniker, Word Press/Open Meeting Books, Kawasaki, Japan and
Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1991
Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited by William Stearns and William
Chaloupka, St. Martin‘s Press, New York, NY, 1992
La Lengua Radical: Antologia de la poesia norteamericana contemporanea, edited and translated by
Esteban Pujals Gesali, Gramma Poesia, Madrid, Spain, 1992
A Suite of Poetic Voices: Interviews with Contemporary American Poets, by Manuel Brito, Kadle Books,
Santa Brigida, Spain, 1992
The Art of Practice, edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick, Potes & Poets Press, Elmwood, CT,
1994 (afterword)
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover, Norton, New York, NY, 1994
From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960–1990, edited by Douglas Messerli,
Sun & Moon, Los Angeles, CA, 1994
American Poetologics/Amerikanische Poetolgie, edited by Helmut Breinig, Univ. of Bramberg Library,
Bramberg Editions, Germany, 1996
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1994–1995, edited by Douglas Messerli, Sun
& Moon, Los Angeles, CA, 1996
Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, edited by Charles Bernstein, Oxford University Press,
1998
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 2,
edited by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998
From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to the Present, edited by Christopher
Beach, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998
Poetics@, edited by Joel Kuszai, Roof Books, New York, NY, 1999
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
The Form of Our Uncertainty: A Tribute to Gil Ott, edited by Kristen Gallagher, Chax & Handwritten
Presses, Buffalo, NY & Tucson, AZ, 2001
The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by David Lehman and Robert Creeley, Scribners, New York, NY,
2002
Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, edited by Todd Swift and Phil Norton,
Rattapallax Press, New York, NY, 2002
One Score More: The Second 20 years of Burning Deck, 1981–2001, edited by Alison Bundy, Keith &
Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck Press, Providence, RI, 2002
Twentieth-Century Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, edited by Dana Gioia, Dave Mason, and Meg
Shoercke, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2004
Fellowship Recipients 2002: The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, edited by Tina Calabro, The
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA, 2004
The Best American Poetry 2004, edited by David Lehman and Lyn Hejinian, Scribners, New York, NY,
2004
The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley‘s Poetry Walk, edited by Robert Hass and Jessica Fisher,
Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA, 2004
Poet‘s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped their Art, edited by Peter Davis, Barnwood
Press, 2005

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Líneas conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos, edited by April Lindner, translation editor
Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, 2006
COBPEMEHHAЯ AMERИKAHCKAЯ ПOЭЭЯ, edited by April Lindner, introduction by Dana Gioia, no
publisher given, no location given (appears to be a Russian translation of Lineas conectadas), 2008
Berkeley Daze: Profiles of Poets in Berkeley in the ‘60s, edited by Rychard Denner, dPress, Sebastapol,
CA, 2008
In the Criminal’s Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction, edited by Todd Swift & Val Stevenson, Nthposition,
London, 2007
Poets on Teaching, A Sourcebook, edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, University of Iowa Press, Iowa
City, IA, 2010
Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press, Westminster, CO, apparently
unpublished

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES & PANELS

―Untitled talk on postmodernism,‖ New Writing Colloquium, Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, B.C.,
August, 1985
―The Evolution of the Sentence in George Oppen‘s Verse,‖ The Pleasure of Being Heard: First
Symposium on the Work of George Oppen, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, June,
1986
―‗My Vocabulary Did This to Me‘,‖ Jack Spicer/White Rabbit Conference, New College of California,
August, 1986
―Untitled talk on postmodernism,‖ Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, May, 1987
―Poets and Intellectuals,‖ Panel on The Political Potential of Modern Poetry, Conference of the Modern
Language Association, San Francisco, December, 1987
―Negative Solidarity: Revisionism and ‗New American Poetics,‘‖ Panel on Ideology and Literary Change,
Conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December, 1987
―‗When first I saw that form endearing‘: Joyce‘s Choices and Our Own,‖ James Joyce Symposium,
University of California, Santa Cruz, April, 1988
―Canons and Institutions: New Hope for the Disappeared,‖ Poetry and Social Policy Series, New School
for Social Research, New York, NY, November, 1988
―Poet-Critics versus the Critical Tradition,‖ 1989 Symposium, Reconstructing Cultural Criticism in
America, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee,
WI, April, 1989 [Rewritten in 1991 as ―The Dysfunction of Criticism‖]
―What Do Cyborgs Want? / (Paris, Suburb of the Twentieth Century),‖ Respondent to Jean Baudrillard‘s
―Transpolitics, Transexuality, Transaesthetics,‖ President‘s Lecture, Conference on Modern
Communication and The Disappearance of Art and Politics, University of Montana, Missoula, MT,
May, 1989
―The New Sentence,‖ (translated by Viktor Mazin), 1989 International Summer School—Language,
Poetry, Consciousness, Poetic Function and the Soviet Culture Foundation, Leningrad, USSR,
August, 1989
―Who Speaks? Ventriloquism and the Self in Contemporary Poetry,‖ VIII Tucson Poetry Festival, Tucson,
AZ, March, 1990; revised versions given in the California Writers Series, Diverseworks Arts Space,
Houston, TX, March, 1991, and in the Southwest Symposium, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, April 1991

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―I Wanted to Write Sentences: Decision Making in the American Longpoem,‖ Conference of the Modern
Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December, 1991
―The Dysfunction of Criticism: Poets and the Critical Tradition of the Anti–Academy,‖ Conference of the
Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December, 1991
―Reference and Resistance: Poetry and the Metaphors of Conduction,‖ Summer Program of the Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO, July, 1994
―Wild Form,‖ Fourth Annual Poetry Conference: Exploring Form and Narrative, West Chester University,
West Chester, PA, June, 1998
―The Desert Modernism,‖ Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2000
―Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan‘s H.D. Book,‖ presented at the University of Kansas Poetics Seminar,
October, 2000; at the Poetry Center of San Francisco State University, October, 2000; at Lannan
Series at Georgetown University, March; 2003; and at the Theorizing Series at the University of
Pennsylvania, March, 2003
―The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry,‖ edited by Rachel Loden & K. Silem
Mohammad from the HumPo Listserv, published in Jacket 33, July, 2007
Text Festival, keynote presenter, Manchester, UK, May, 2009
―What Is the State of American Poetry? Leading American Poets Speak,‖ Huffington Post, September 11,
2010

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Co–curator, The Grand Piano, with Tom Mandel, San Francisco, CA, reading series, 1977
Co–curator, Verbal Eyes, The Farm, with Jill Scott, reading series with performance art, 1978
Co–curator, The Tassajara Bakery, with Bob Perelman and David Schneider, San Francisco, reading
series, 1979–80
Curator, Cynthia Miller: Paintings, CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York, 2008

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS OF POETRY

1965
Community Libertarian, No. 1, May 1, three poems, no pagination

1966
Avalanche, No. 1, Berkeley, CA, ―One, Two, Three Hands Clapping,‖ no pagination
Avalanche, No. 2, Berkeley, CA, three poems, no pagination
Kauri, No. 14, New York, NY, ―The Gangster Piano,‖ p. 19
Loveletter, Triple No. 4, 5, 6, Palo Alto, CA, ―The ‗Dead Man‘ Metaphor,‖ no pagination
Poetry Northwest, Vol. 7, No. 3, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ―Music Minus One: The Lover,‖ p.
35

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1967
Arts in Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ―Two hands, one calloused,‖ p. 525
Avalanche, No. 3, Berkeley, CA, ―The Grateful Dead,‖ no pagination
Hollow Orange, No. 4, San Francisco, CA, ―Elegy for a Grey Rose,‖ ―Here. Now.,‖ ―A Sunset Shore near
Carmel,‖ no pagination
New, No. 4, September, Trumansberg, NY, ―The morning dishes are undone again...,‖ pp. 22
Poetry Northwest, Vol. 8, No. 4, University of Washington, Seattle, ―Children,‖ ―The Snake,‖ pp. 25–6
University of Tampa Poetry Review, No. 11, Tampa, Florida, title and pagination unknown

1968
Chicago Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ―The Tree Speaks,‖ ―Age Thirty, With
Neither Wife Nor Trade,‖ ―Umbrellas,‖ pp. 58–60
Chicago Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, November, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ―Anarchy,‖ ―Belief,‖ ―A
Song of Buildings, of Berkeley,‖ pp. 47–49
The South Florida Poetry Journal, No. 1, ―Relevance,‖ p. 29
Trace, No. 68, London, UK, ―When Honesty Is Policy,‖ p. 246
TriQuarterly, No. 12, Spring, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ―Youra,‖ p. 193
Work, No. 5, Detroit, MI, two poems, p. 75

1969
Arts in Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, two poems, p. 431
Caterpillar 8/9, October, New York, NY, ―From an Abandoned Text,‖ pp. 205–206
Gods and Heroes: A Modern American Writer Looks at the Greece of Yesterday and Today (New York:
Doubleday), by Herbert Kubly, ―Youra,‖ frontispiece
Occident, Vol. 3, New Series, Spring/Summer, University of California, Berkeley, CA, ―After the
Pastoral...,‖ p. 69
Poetry, Vol. 113, No. 4, January, Chicago, IL, ―He Was A Visitor,‖ p. 255
The South Florida Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, five poems, p. 33–5

1970
Occident, Vol. 4, New Series, Spring/Summer, University of California, Berkeley, CA, pp. 34–36,
―Tab‘itha‖
Tottel‘s, No. 1, Oakland, CA, ―Overall/s on a fence,‖ p. 3

1971
Amphora 6, Headstone Press, San Francisco, CA, ―wine sun,‖ ―see / cull,‖ ―I made my bike work,‖ no
pagination
Chicago Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, Spring, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ―Text I,‖ ―Text VII,‖ pp. 26–
28

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Occident, Vol. 5, New Series, Fall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, ―Poem,‖ p. 9
Rain, Nos. 1 & 2, Willamette, IL, ―A street,‖ p. 116
This 1, Winter, Iowa City, IA and Gloucester, MA, 4 untitled poems, no pagination
This 2, Fall, Iowa City, IA and Franconia, NH, 5 untitled poems, no pagination
Tottel‘s, No. 6, Oakland, CA, 4 untitled poems, p. 11
Tuatara, No. 5, July, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 8 untitled poems, pp. 1– 4

1972
Baloney Street, No. 3/4, Ventura, CA, 13 untitled poems, no pagination
Diana‘s Bimonthly, Vol 1., No. 3, Providence, RI, ―5 short & untitled things‖
Diana‘s Bimonthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, August, Providence, RI, 7 untitled poems, pp. 41– 47
Salt Lick, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2, Quincy, IL, ―Legend,‖ ―rue whelm,‖ pp. 26–28
Shelter, February, Bowling Green, OH, untitled poem, no pagination
Silver, Moorpark, CA, ―the gray,‖ ―mudflats,‖ ―browns,‖ pp. 17, 18, 60
Third Assembling, Brooklyn, NY, untitled poem, no pagination
Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands, Seattle, WA, ―which watch what,‖ no pagination
Tottel‘s, No. 8, Oakland, CA, 11 untitled poems, p. 9
Tottel‘s, No. 10, San Francisco, CA, untitled poem and ―Bohor,― pp. 20–27

1973
Big Deal, No. 1, Spring, Berkeley, CA, 2 untitled poems from ―Ott,‖ ―Petaluma,‖ ―Positron,‖ no
pagination
Gum, No. 9, Iowa City, IA, ―My Heart,‖ no pagination
L, Vol. 1, No. 2–3, Spring, Berkeley, CA, ―tendon,‖ no pagination
Shirt, April, Bowling Green, OH, ―Nickelodeon,‖ no pagination
This 4, Spring, San Francisco, CA and Franconia, NH, ―Ammo,‖ ―Considerations,‖ ―Poem,‖ ―Presidio
Heights,‖ no pagination
Toothpick, Lisbon & the Orcas Islands, Andrews/Wiater Issue, Fall, ―Allures,‖ ―Song No. 1,‖ no
pagination

1974
Baloney Street, No. 7, Ventura, CA, untitled poem, no pagination
Big Deal, No. 2, Spring, New York, NY, ―Radiator,‖ pp. 11–16
Fifth Assembling, Brooklyn, NY, ―Hercules,‖ no pagination
Gegenschein Quarterly, No. 7–8, Bowling Green, OH, ―from ‗Songs for Bruce Andrews,‘‖ ―Lips,‖ ―from
‗Ott‘,‖ no pagination
L, Vol. 1, No. 4–5, Spring, Berkeley, CA, ―ACTH,‖ ―Pavilions,‖ ―Popeye,‖ ―Hot‖
Occident, Vol. viii, New Series, Spring, University of California, Berkeley, CA, ―Aud,‖ p. 183

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Roy Rogers, Winter, New York, NY, ―what high lurking hornets...,‖ p. 112
This 5, Winter, San Francisco, CA and Franconia, NH, ―Berkeley,‖ ―Modulo Z,‖ no pagination

1975
Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Boston University, Boston, MA, ―Tri,‖ pp. 114–116
Big Deal, No. 3, Spring, New York, NY, ―Kensington,‖ pp. 92–94
Clown War 11, Brooklyn, NY, ―Emeryville,‖ pp. 17–20
Eureka Review, No. 1, Willows, CA, ―Typing,‖ ―from ‗Bourbaki‘,‖ pp. 115–120
Telephone, No. 10, New York, NY, ―Apple Pie,‖ ―the high rose,‖ ―Allures,‖ no pagination
The 13, Boulder, CO, ―Hayward‖
This 6, Spring, San Francisco, CA, ―from Ketjak,‖ no pagination

1976
A Hundred Posters, No. 8, August, Dorchester, MA, ―Private Parts,‖ no pagination
Bezoar, Vol. 4, No. 2, November, Gloucester, MA, ―BART,‖ no pagination
Bondage & Discipline, Vol. 1, No. 3, Chicago, IL, nine poems, no pagination
Eureka Review, No. 1, Willows, CA, ―Typing,‖ ―from ‗Bourbaki‘,‖ pp. 115–20
Flora Danica, No. 2, September, Ann Arbor, MI, ―Ponziani,‖ ―Alekhine,‖ ―The Marquis de la Place,‖
―The Enormous Tragedy of the Dream in the Peasant‘s Bent Shoulders,‖ no pagination
Occulist Witnesses, No. 3, Fall, Boston, MA, ―Of,‖ untitled poem
This 7, Spring, San Francisco, CA, ―from ‗Sailboat‘,‖ no pagination
Tottel‘s, No. 16, San Francisco, CA, ―Sailboat V,‖ p. 42

1977
Boundary 2, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter, State University of New York, Binghampton, NY, ―from The Chinese
Notebook,‖ pp. 539–551
Hills 4, May, San Francisco, CA, ―I Am Marion Delgado,‖ no pagination
Miam, No. 3, August, San Francisco, CA, ―I Meet Osip Brik,‖ ―San Francisco Destroyed by Fire,‖ entire
issue
Roof III, New York, NY, ―Invasion of the Stalinoids,‖ ―from Legend,‖ pp. 66–100

1978
Abracadabra, No. 3, Luxembourg, ―Ponzioni,‖ no pagination
Bezoar, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer, Gloucester, MA, ―Definition and the Double Life,‖ no pagination
Epod, No. 2, September, Baltimore, MD, ―from Legend,‖ no pagination
Las–Bas, No. 10, January–February, College Park, MD, ―Turk Street News,‖ pp. 43–49
Paper Air, Vol. 1, No. 3, Blue Bell, PA, ―The Four Protozoas,‖ pp. 5–9

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Roof V, New York, NY, ―Do We Know Ella Cheese?,‖ pp. 78–85
Roof VII, New York, NY, ―Sunset Debris,‖ pp. 57–82
Tottel‘s, No. 17, San Francisco, CA, ―from Legend,‖ ―Allied Gardens,‖ pp. 29–4
Wet, No. 21, Venice, CA, excerpts from Sunset Debris, pp. 19–25
This 9, Winter, San Francisco, CA, ―from Tjanting,‖ no pagination

1979
Bezoar, Vol. 15, No. 3, supplement to the Spring Issue of Winter, April, Gloucester, MA, ―a paragraph
from Tjanting,‖ no pagination (entire issue)
Gnome Baker IV, Great River, NY, ―from Tjanting,‖ no pagination
Interstate, Vol. 3, No. 4, Austin, TX, ―Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap,‖ ―The Swans,‖ pp.
24–8, 136–8
Sun & Moon, No. 8, Fall, College Park, MD, ―from Legend,‖ pp. 162–169
Wet, No. 21, November/December, Venice, CA, ―from ‗Sunset Debris‘,‖ pp. 19–25

1980
The Difficulties, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter, Kent, OH, ―from ‗Bourbaki‘,‖ no pagination

1981
O.ars, No. 1, Cambridge, MA, ―Rhizome,‖ pp. 165–ff.
Tamarisk, Vol. III, No. 4, Summer, Philadelphia, PA, ―from ‗Bourbaki‘,‖ pp. 43–4
This 11, Spring, Oakland, CA, ―Skies III,‖ no pagination

1982
Change, No. 41, March, Paris, France, ―S‘asseyant, debout, marchant,‖ (Sitting, Standing, Taking Steps),
translated by Jean Pierre Faye, pp. 178–179
Paris Review 86, Winter, New York, NY and Paris, France, ―Blue,‖ pp. 84– 8
Sulfur 3, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, ―Skies I,‖ pp. 6–8
Sulfur 4, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, ―Skies II,‖ pp. 138–149

1983
Boxcar, No. 1, Los Angeles, CA, ―Garfield,‖ pp. 22–25
Conjunctions 4, New York, NY, ―Engines‖ (Rae Armantrout, co–author), pp. 120–124
Hills 9, Berkeley, CA, ―Force,‖ pp. 106–110
Ironwood 20, Tucson, AZ, ―Albany,‖ pp. 112–113
So & So, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring, Berkeley, CA, ―Skies IV,‖ no pagination
This 12, Oakland, CA, ―Carbon,‖ no pagination

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1984
Bluefish, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring, Southampton, NY, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 55– 56
Pavement, No. 4, Spring, Iowa City, IA, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 17–22
1985
Abacus, ―Ron Silliman issue,‖ Elmwood, CT, ―from Paradise,‖ entire issue
Carte Segrete, Nuova Serie, No. 1, Rome, Italy, ―Porta girevole‖ (Opening sequence of Ketjak) translated
by Franco La Polla, pp. 133–135
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, Vol. 2, No. 2, Kent, OH, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 1–33
Fiction International, 15:2, San Diego, CA, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 93–95
Five Fingers Review, No. 2, San Francisco, CA, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 30–32
Moving Letters, Paris, France, ―Manifest,‖ no pagination
Origin, Fifth Series, No. 6, Kyoto, Japan & Orono, ME, ―from Paradise,‖ pp. 92– 100
Writing 11, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, ―from Paradise,‖ pp. 18–23

1986
Bulletin A.R.C. Litterature, Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, No. 162, ―Trace,‖
(translation of opening section of Tjanting), translated by Philippe Jaworski, pp. 659–660
Caliban, No. 1, Ann Arbor, MI, ―from ‗Oz‘,‖ pp. 80–82
Mandorla: The Minetta Review, New York, NY, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 62–64
Notes, Malakoff, France, ―soft you about yester,‖ p. 7
Sink 1, San Francisco, CA, ―from ‗Lit‘ ‖
Southpaw, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter, Detroit, MI, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ pp. 53–ff.
Sulfur 16, Los Angeles, CA, ―from ‗Oz‘,‖ pp. 124–129
Temblor, No. 3, North Hollywood, CA, ―Demo,‖ pp. 140–148
Tramen, No. 5, San Francisco, CA, ―from ‗Lit‘,‖ no pagination
Zyzzyva, San Francisco, CA, ―from ‗Oz‘,‖ pp. 146–149

1987
B–City, No. 4, Spring, Chicago, IL, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp. 42–4
boundary 2, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1 & 2, ―Fall 1985/Winter 1986‖ (sic), SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY,
―from Paradise,‖ pp. 13–14
Central Park, No. 11, Spring, New York, NY, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp. 39–44
The New American Writing, No. 1, Chicago, IL, ―from ‗Oz‘,‖ pp. 84–9

1988
Archive Newsletter, Archive for New Poetry, UCSD Library, La Jolla, CA, Spring, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp. 20–
23

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Conjunctions 12, New York, NY, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp. 248–251
Gendaishi Techo, January, Japan, ―from ‗I am Marion Delgado‘,‖ (translated by Shuri Kido), pp. 381–382
Generator 2, Mentor, OH, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp. 53–57

O.blek, No. 3, Stockbridge, MA & New York, NY, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp. 73–78
Temblor 8, North Hollywood, CA, ―Ink,‖ pp. 11–24
West Coast Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, Summer ―1987‖ (sic), Burnaby, BC, Canada, ―from ‗Hidden‘,‖ pp.
37–41

1989
Broadway 2, New York, NY, ―from ‗Toner‘,‖ pp. 109–112
Chax Press Broadside, Tucson, AZ, ―Albany‖
Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, ―from Tjanting,‖ translated into ‗Serbocroation‘ by
Dubravka Djuric and Elena Lacok, pp. 345–347
minnesota review, Storrs, CT, ―from ‗Toner‘‖
O.blek, No. 6, Stockbridge, MA, ―from `Toner‘,‖ pp. 137–142
Screens and Tasted Parallels, Palo Alto, CA, ―from ‗Oz‘,‖ pp. 106–109
Sulfur 24, Spring, 1989, Ypsilanti, MI, ―from ‗Toner‘,‖ pp. 13 –35
Talisman, No. 3, Fall, 1989, Hoboken, NJ, ―from ‗Toner‘,‖ pp. 76–79
Zyzzyva, Vol. V, No. 1, San Francisco, ―from ‗Toner‘,‖ pp. 73–85

1990
Archive for New Poetry Newsletter, No. 46, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 17–18
Avec, No. 3, Rohnert Park, CA, ―from ‗Toner,‖ pp. 136–140
Brief 7, Canyon, CA, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ no pagination
Edge, Tokyo, Japan, ―from ‗Toner‘,‖ p. 31
La Pagina, No. 2, February–May, Tenerife, Canary Islands, ―from ‗Ketjak‘,‖ in English with facing Spanish
translation by Estaban Pujals Gesali, pp. 132–135
Raddle Moon, No. 9, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 35–6
Verse, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fife, Scotland, Salford, England, and Williamsburg, VA, ―from ‗Toner‘,‖ pp. 64–65
Writing No. 25, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 20–23

1991
Blue Mesa Review, No. 3, Spring, 1991, Albuquerque, NM, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 256–259
Generator 5, Mentor, OH, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 59–66
Meanjin, Vol. 50, No. 1, Autumn, 1991, Melbourne, Australia, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 164–165
O.ars, No. 8, Cambridge, MA, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 69–70
Socialist Review, Vol. 91, No. 2, April–June 1991, ―from Leningrad,‖ pp. 15–23

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Zyzzyva 25, Vol. VII, No. 1, San Francisco, CA, ―from ‗Jones‘,‖ pp. 76–81

1992
Ovdia, No. 286, October, 1992, Podgoritsa, Serbia, ―Skies, II,‖ translated by Dubravka Djuric, p. 18
Rusky Almanac, No. 2, Belgrade, Serbia, ―Leningrad,‖ excerpts translated by Dubravka Djuric, pp. 232–
ff.
Stifled Yawn, Minneapolis, MN, ―From ‗Non‘‖
Talisman, Hoboken, NJ, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ pp. 110–114
Tyuonyi, Santa Fe, NM, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ pp. 115–121

1993
Columbia Poetry Review, No. 6, Chicago, IL, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ pp. 16–17
Grist On–Line, No. 1, New York, NY, ―from ‗Non‘‖
Hot Bird Mfg, Vol. II, No. 5, July, 1993, New York, NY, ―from ‗Non‘‖
Mirage #4/Period(ical) #17, June 1993, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ no pagination
The Redneck Review of Literature, No. XXIV, Spring, 1993, Milwaukee, WI, ―From ‗Jones‘,‖ p. 89

1994
B–City, Dekalb, IL, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 1–6
Conjunctions No. 21, Annandale–on–Hudson, NY, ―®,‖ pp. 166–18
Croton Bug 3, Milwaukee, WI, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ pp. 5–9
New American Writing, No. 12, Chicago, IL, ―from ‗Non‘‖
No Roses Review, No. 3, Spring, 1994, Chicago, IL, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 72–78
Object No. 2, Winter 1993/1994, New York, NY, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ pp. 28–31
Object Permanence, Issue One, January, Glasgow, Scotland, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ pp. 54–5
Situation No. 7, Buffalo, NY, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ no pagination

1995
Den Blå Port: Tidsskrift for Literature, 33/95, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, ―Uddrag af Tjanting,‖
pp. 33–34, translated as ―Mæssende,‖ by Claus Schatz–Jakobsen, pp. 34–35
Cream City Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 1995, from ―Under,‖ pp. 89–93
Grist On–Line, No. 6, New York, NY, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ no pagination
Proliferation No. 2, November 1994 (sic), ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 13–17
6ix, Vol. 4, No. 1, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 8–11
TO, Vol. 3, No. 5, Summer 1995, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 69–72

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1996
CrossConnect, Vol. 1, No. 3, February 1996, Philadelphia, PA, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ (no pagination) (E–zine)
CrossConnect, Vol. 1, 1996, Philadelphia, PA, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 143–149 (print version of above item)
Iowa Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer, 1996, Iowa City, Iowa, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 174–178
New Orleans Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1996, New Orleans, LA, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 33–36
Object Permanence, Issue Six, January, 1996, Glasgow, Scotland, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 26–30
Salt, No. 8, Applecross, Western Australia, Australia, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 79–83
Subdream, Vol. 1, No. 1, Vienna, Austria, ―from ‗Under‘,‖ pp. 19–20
Tinfish 3, Honolulu, Hawaii, ―You I, II, III,‖ pp. 47–49

1997
Chicago Review, Vol. 42, Nos. 3 & 4, Fifty Years: A Retrospective Issue, Chicago, IL, ―Text VII,‖ (cf. 1971
above), pp. 115–118
―From Toner, Lit, Paradise and Manifest‖ with English facing, translated by Manual Brito, in Cuadernos
del Ateneo de La Laguna, No. 2, 1997, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, pp. 31–35
Potepoetzine Two, Elmwood, CT, ―You VII, IX, X,‖ no pagination

1998
1998 Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, ―You
XVIII, XXVI, XXVII,‖ pp. 30–31
Abacus, No. 114, May 15, 1998, E. Hartford, CT, ―Quindecagon‖
Black Ice, ―You XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII‖
CrossConnect, Vol. 4, No. 2, ―You XXIX, XXX, XXXI‖
Fourteen Hills, San Francisco State University, San Franciso, CA, ―You XI, XII, XIII,‖ pp 85–87
Kenning, No. 2, Iowa City, IA, ―You XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII‖ (misnumbered as XXVII), pp.12–14
Non, No. 2, ―From Tjanting‖
Philly Talks, No. 3, Philadelphia, PA, ―You V, VI, VII, XIX, XXII, XXIII,‖ plus email correspondence with
Jeff Derksen, no pagination (entire issue)
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, bookmark inserted into the issue: ―Albany‖
Sycamore Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer/Fall, 1998, W. Lafayette, IN, ―You XX, XXI, XXIV, XXV,‖ pp.
74–78

1999
5_trope No. 6, from ―You,‖ XLV, XLVI, XLVII (link no longer active, but see 2002)
APR Philly Edition 99 (American Poetry Review), Philadelphia, PA, from ―You XLI, XLII, XLIII, XLIV,‖
published as an insert to the Philadelphia Weekly, September 29, p. 16
Chain 6 (―Letters‖), Honolulu, HI and Collegeville, PA, from Ketjak2: Caravan of Affect, pp. 22–24
Jacket, No. 6, January, 1999, Balmain, Australia, from ―You, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XL”

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PoetryEtc, ―Featured Poet #18,‖ edited by John Kinsella, Cambridge, UK, e-list publication from
poetryetc@listbot.com, from Hidden, Oz and What
Stand, New Series Vol. 1, No. 4, Cambridge, UK, from ―Under Albany,‖ pp. 41–46
Veer, Dallas, TX, from ―You,‖ XXXII and XXXIII

2000
Chain, No. 7 (―memoir/anti–memoir,‖) Honolulu, HI, and Philadelphia, PA, from ―Under Albany‖ pp. 176–
192
Conjunctions 35, New York, NY and Annandale, NY, ―Fubar Clus,‖ from VOG, pp. 256–260
CrossConnect, Vol. 5, No. 2, Philadelphia, PA, ―Silence of the Looms‖ and ―The Nose of Kim Darby‘s
Double,‖ from VOG
Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age, Vol. 4, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 143–147
Dandelion, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 2000, Calgary, Canada, from ―You, XXXV,‖ pp. 119–120
Ixnay, No. 4, Spring–Summer 2000, Philadelphia, PA, from ―You, XIX, XXXIV,‖ no pagination
ReadMe, No. 3, Spring 2000, from Ketjak2: Caravan of Affect
Slope, No. 5, July, 2000, ―That which is merely eternal soon rots,‖ from VOG,
Shiny, No. 11, Denver, CO, from ―You, XLVIII, XLIX, L, LI, LII‖

2001
Crow, Edge Books, Washington, DC, from ―Under Albany,‖ no pagination
Facture 2, Grass Valley, CA, ―For Larry Eigner, Silent,‖ from VOG, pp. 15–17
DC Poetry, Anthology 2001, Washington, DC, ―It Takes a Village,‖ from VOG
Journal of Literature and Aesthetic, Vol. 1, No. 1, July–December 2001, Kerala, India, from ―Demo,‖ pp.
90–92
POeP! 1, Rattapallax Press, New York, NY, ―Boptivity,‖ from VOG, pp. 121–128
Sal Mimeo, No. 2, Fall, 2001, New York, NY, ―Torsion Dystonia,‖ from VOG, no pagination

2002
5_trope No. 13, anthology issue, from ―You, XLV, XLVI, XLVII”
88, Hollyridge Press, Venice, CA, ―Storming Waumbec Mountain by Golf Cart,‖ and ―Toward an
Anniversary of a Drowning in the Senses,‖ from VOG, pp. 112–116

Jacket, No. 16, Balmain, Australia, ―The Satellite,‖ from VOG

Matrix, No. 61, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ―Landscape with Chairs,‖ from VOG, pp. 43–44
muse apprentice guild, Vol. 1, No. 1, August, 2002, San Diego, CA, from ―Ketjak2‖
near south, Chicago, IL, ―Rooms,‖ from VOG, pp. 15–17
nthposition, August, 2002, ―Task Me with a ‗Do It‘,‖ and ―Dadaquest,‖ from VOG
overland 166, Melbourne, Australia, from ―The Satellite,‖ from VOG, p. 60.

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Realpoetik, Seattle, WA & Iowa City, IA, ―Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,‖ (email publication,
September 25, 2002)
Salt Hill 12, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, ―Finland Silence,‖ from ―Ketjak2,‖ pp. 84–89
Washington Square 10, Summer, 2002, ―The Barefoot Waldo,‖ and ―Antipoem to the Barefoot Waldo,‖
from VOG, pp. 49–52

2003
antennae 4, Chicago, IL, ―Pigeons in the Grasp Alas,‖ and ―Compliance Engineering,‖ from VOG, pp. 58–
63
Call, No. 1, ―Eleutherian Mills,‖ and ―Seven Sad Forests,‖ from VOG, pp. 50–54
Double Room, Issue 3, Winter 2003, ―Final For‖
Electronic Poetry Review, No. 5, February, 2003, ―On Brier Island‖ and ―Trouble Ticket,‖ from VOG
Filling Station, No. 25, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, ―Dogs Love Trucks‖ and ―Viral,‖ from VOG, pp. 36–39
Lit, No. 8, Winter, 2003–2004, New York, NY, ―The Rope Factory,‖ from VOG, pp. 42–44
NWS, November 6, Orono, ME, ―Seven Sad Forests,‖ from VOG, (chaplet for reading at U. of Maine)
Secret Swan No. 14, Oakland, CA, ―Seven Sad Forests,‖ from VOG, (broadside for reading at 21 Grand,
Oakland)
Van Gogh‘s Ear, 2, Spring 2003, Saint–Mandé, France, ―Spiderduck,‖ from VOG, pp. 151–168

2004
Mute: Culture and Politics After the Net, issue 27, London, UK, ―Hippoheimer the King,‖ from VOG, pp.
112–113
The Agents of Impurity, July, 2004, Sonic Arts Network, London, UK, from ―Sunset Debris‖
―Considerations of Representability‖ from The Age of Huts, translated as ―Consideraciones de
Representabildad,‖ translated by Manuel Brito in La Pagina 58 (Año XVI, numero 4, 2004), Santa
Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, pp. 44–61 (with the original English on facing pages)
Poezie Pamflet, October, 2004, Holland, ―Final For,‖ from VOG, translated as ―Net Voor,‖ by Ton van ‗t
Hof

2005
Big Bridge, No. 10, ―At the end of the day…,‖ from Zyxt
Cue, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer, 2005, ―I‘m still not convinced…,‖ from Zyxt, pp. 27–28
Drunken Boat, ―Giant framed photograph…,‖ from Zyxt
Latchkey.Net [link dead as of 9/09], ―Flyers have been taped…,‖ from Zyxt‖; ―Proto–mallie: the flaneur…,‖
from Non; ―The word as ground…,‖ from Under

MiPoesias: Revista Literaria, Vol. 19, No. 3, ―To confuse dream with sleep…,‖ from Zyxt
Poems from Others, email zine, ―Albany‖
RealPoetik, email zine, ―I‘m in a warm, even hot bath…,‖ from Zyxt
Shampoo, ―The hand without its palm…,‖ from Zyxt

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2006
mark(s), Detroit, MI, six sections from Zyxt, including: ―A young woman bicycles past a field of corn…,‖
―Domain poisoning…,‖ ―Elk or ilk, which one…,‖ ―In the dream I‘m always in the same drab green
room…,‖ ―Just out of the bath…,‖ ―like a typo but is not…‖
O Poss, No. 1, 2006, ―(G)hosts,‖ from VOG, pp. 15–16
Xconnect / CrossConnect, Vol. 8, Philadelphia, PA, two sections from Zyxt, including: ―I step into
Pangaea…,‖ and ―Sweat stains the jogger‘s tanktop…,‖ pp. 118–120

2007
Jacket 33, ―Flush hard…,‖ from Zyxt, as part of ―The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in
Poetry,‖ edited by Rachel Loden and K. Silem Mohammad
Milk 8, Chicago, ―What I notice...,‖ from Zyxt
The Pulchritudinous Review, issue one, Ann Arbor, MI, ―Air this humid…,‖ from Zyxt, p. 17

2008
Room to Move No. 1, ―A giant, domesticated and most benevolent sea lion…,‖ from Zyxt, no location
given, no pagination
EOAGH, ―A Dream Before Dawn…,‖ from Zyxt

2010
Poetry, June 2010, Chicago, IL, from ―Revelator,‖ pp. 191–205
The Nation, Vol. 291, No. 11, September 13, 2010, from ―Revelator,‖ p. 32
The Huffington Post website, from ―Revelator,‖ September 11, 2010
Dublin Poetry Review, from ―Revelator‖

Forthcoming
Fact-Simile Trading Card Series, Ron Silliman feature

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS OF CRITICAL WRITING

―The Soft Hello,‖ Salt Lick, Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 2, 1972, Quincy, IL, pp. 50–62
Untitled review of Tom Clark‘s Neil Young, in Rolling Stone, No. 113, July 20, 1972, San Francisco, CA,
p. 60
―Opening,‖ Maps 6, ―Robert Duncan Issue,‖ 1974, Shippensburg, PA, pp. 72–80
―Surprised by Sign,‖ in ―The Dwelling Place: 9 Poets,‖ Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1975,
Boston University, Boston, MA, pp. 118–120
Untitled review of Tom Marioni‘s Vision, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 2, June, 1977, pp.
17–18

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Untitled review of seven volumes of poetry and poetics, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 3, Nos. 3/4,
July/August, 1977, pp. 36–37
―Art with No Name,‖ State of the Arts, Cultural News & Services (publication of the California Arts
Council), Vol. 1, No. 10, November, 1997; republished in The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary
Compendium on Language & Performance, edited by Steven Vincent and Ellen Zweig (published
simultaneously as a Momo‘s Press book and as Shocks 7, 8, 9, San Francisco, CA, 1981), pp. 160–
65
―For Open Letter,‖ in ―The Politics of the Referent,‖ Open Letter, Third Series, No. 7, Summer, 1977,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 89–93, reprinted in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Supplement No. 1, June,
1980, New York, NY, no pagination
―Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,‖ A Hundred Posters, No. 14, February, 1977,
Boston, MA, entire issue, reprinted in Art Contemporary, Vol. 2, No. 2/3, 1977, San Francisco, CA,
pp. 10–11, 50–53; also reprinted in The Dumb Ox, No. 5, 1977, Northridge, CA, pp. 27–30; in ―The
Politics of Poetry — A Supplement,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Supplement No. 3, October, 1981, New
York, NY, no pagination; in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles
Bernstein, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1984, pp. 121–132; in Jean Baudrillard:
The Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited by William Stearns and William Chaloupka, St. Martin‘s
Press, New York, NY, 1992, p. 27–37; translated into Croatian as ―Iscezavanje Reci, Pojavljivanje
Sveta‖ by Adrijana Marcetic in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, pp. 275–290;
translated into German (and printed bilingually as ―Verschwinden des Wortes, Erscheinen der Welt‖)
in Amerikanische Poetologie: Lyriker and Lyrikerinnen der USA in Selbstaussagen und Gedichten—
Eine Zweisprachige Auswahl, edited by Helmbrecht Breinig, (Bamberg: University of Bamberg
Library, ―Bamberger Editionen, Harald Wentzlaff–Eggebert, general editor, 1996); translated into
Dutch as ―De verdwijning van het word, De verschijning van de wereld‖ by Sascha Bru in Yang No.
191, November 2000, pp. 385–393
―Ubeity,‖ A Symposium on Clark Coolidge: Stations 5, Winter, 1978, Milwaukee, WI, pp. 19–22
―Nice,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol 1. No. 1, February, 1978, New York, NY, no pagination, reprinted in
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., p. 250
―Space May Produce New Wor(l)ds,‖ Montemora 4, 1978, New York, NY, pp. 289–290
―The Williams Influence,‖ San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 1, May, 1978, pp. 42–44
―Louis Zukofsky,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, No. 4, August, 1978, New York, NY, no pagination, reprinted in
Paideuma, Vol. 7, No. 3, ―Louis Zukofsky Issue,‖ Winter, 1978, National Poetry Foundation, Orono,
ME, pp. 405–406
―Breastwork,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 2, April, 1978, New York, NY, no pagination
―For L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 4, August, 1978, no pagination
―From ‗Language Writing‘,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 5, October, 1978, no pagination
―Benjamin Obscura,‖ Renegade, No. 1, no date given, New York, NY, pp. 35–70, excerpted in
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 6, New York, NY, 1979, no pagination, and in The
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 63–65
Untitled review of Curtis Faville‘s Stanzas for an Evening Out, in San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 4,
No. 7, March, 1979, pp. 24–25
Untitled review of Robert Grenier‘s Sentences, in American Book Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer, 1979,
New York, NY, p. 12
―Notes on the Relation of Theory to Practice,‖ Paper Air, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1979, Blue Bell, PA, pp. 6–13
―If by ‗Writing‘ We Mean Literature,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 2, Nos. 9/10, October, 1979, no
pagination; reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 167–168; translated into
Spanish as ―Si por ‗Escritura‘ Queremos Decir Literatura‖ by Margarita Mele, in Nerter, No. 1, Otoño–
Invierno, 1999, pp. 38–39

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―Zyxt,‖ The Poets‘ Encyclopedia, Unmuzzled Ox, New York, NY, 1979, pp. 296–297, reprinted in The
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., p. 207
―The New Sentence,‖ Talks: Hills 6/7, 1980, San Francisco, CA, pp. 190–217; abridged in Claims for
Poetry, op. cit., pp. 377–398; and in In the American Tree, op. cit. An abridged version translated into
Danish by Line Brandt as ―Den Ny Sætning ― in Nye Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København
(Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 45–59
―Rewriting Marx,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 3, No. 13, December, 1980, no pagination; reprinted as ―Re
Writing: Marx,‖ in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., p. 174; reprinted in ―Money: A Poets‘
Symposium,‖ edited by David Lehman, in Epoch, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1989, p. 166
―Introduction Collective au Movement de Language Poetry,‖ co–authored with Barrett Watten, Steve
Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman, translated by Jean–Pierre Faye, in
Change, No. 41, March, 1981; published in English original as For Change in In the American Tree,
National Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME, 1986, pp. 484–490 (dated here correctly as 1982); translated
into ‗Serbocroation‘ as ―Za Promenu‖ by Dubravka Djuric, in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, pp. 251–257
―Third Phase Objectivism,‖ Paideuma, Vol. 10, No. 1, ―George Oppen Issue,‖ Spring, 1981, National
Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME, pp. 85–89
―The Political Economy of Poetry,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 4, 1981, New York, NY; simultaneously
published as Open Letter, Fifth Series, No. 1, Winter, 1982, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 52–65;
reprinted in From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to the Present, edited
by Christopher Beach (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998), pp 190–200; reprinted in
Twentieth– Century Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, edited by Dana Gioia, Dave Mason, and Meg
Shoercke, McGraw–Hill, 2004
―Reading Ketjak,‖ The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary Compendium on Language & Performance,
edited by Steven Vincent and Ellen Zweig (published simultaneously as a Momo‘s Press book and as
Shocks 7, 8, 9, San Francisco, CA, 1981), pp. 194–199; republished in Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman
and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz,
CA, October, 1998, pp. 46–51.
Untitled review of David Ignatow‘s Open Between Us, in American Book Review, Vol. 3, No. 6,
September–October, 1981, p. 8
Untitled review of Bruce Andrews‘ Wobbling, in Sagetrieb, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1982, National Poetry
Foundation, pp. 155–158
―Identification, Reference, Mode,‖ O.ars, No. 2, 1982, Cambridge, MA, pp. 132–134
―For Charles Bernstein has such a Spirit...,‖ The Difficulties: Charles Bernstein Issue, Fall, 1982, Kent,
OH, pp. 98–114
―Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem,‖ Poetics Journal, No. 2, September, 1982,
Oakland and Berkeley, CA, pp. 27–41; Translated as ―Nomadisk Betydning ― by Line Brandt in Nye
Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. pp. 61–83
Untitled review of Hannah Weiner‘s Little Books/Indians and Nijole‘s House, in Sulfur 5, 1982, op. cit., pp.
138–141
Untitled review of William Bronk‘s Life Supports, in American Book Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, op. cit., pp. 18–
19
―Realism,‖ in ―Realism,‖ Ironwood, No. 20, 1983, Tucson, AZ, pp. 62–70, reprinted in a corrected version,
No. 21, 1983, pp. 142–149
―Composition as Action,‖ Poetics Journal, No. 3, May, 1983, Oakland and Berkeley, CA, pp. 73–76
Untitled review of Kenneth Irby‘s Orexis, in American Book Review, Vol. 5, No. 5, July–August, 1983, op.
cit., p. 12

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Untitled review of Beverly Dahlen‘s The Egyptian Poems, in Sulfur 11, 1984, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 184–
185
Untitled review of Philip Dow‘s 19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate, in San Francisco Chronicle,
Review Magazine, May 13, 1984, pp. 4–6
Untitled review of Ted Hughes‘ River, in San Francisco Chronicle, Review Magazine, June, 17, 1984, p. 8
―Spicer‘s Language,‖ in Writing/Talks, edited by Bob Perelman, Southern Illinois University Press,
Carbondale, IL, 1985, pp. 166–191
―Statement for New Poetics Colloquium,‖ in untitled collection published in conjunction with colloquium,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1985; reprinted in Jimmy and Lucy‘s House of ‗K‘, No. 5,
November, 1985, pp. 17–19
―Different Languages,‖ American Book Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, March/April, 1985, pp. 12–13
―Waves of Meaning,‖ American Book Review, Vol. 7, No. 6, September/October, 1985, pp. 10–12, 23
―Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein: Correspondence: May, 1976–December, 1977,‖
edited by Steve McCaffery, Lines, pp. 59–90
Untitled review of Barrett Watten‘s Progress, in San Francisco Chronicle, Review Magazine, Nov. 17,
1985, p. 12
―Stanzas in Meditation,‖ Tramen, No. 4, 1986, no pagination
―New Prose, New Prose Poem,‖ in Postmodern Fiction: A Bio– Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry
McCaffery, Greenwood Press, New York, NY, pp. 157–174
―Charles Bernstein,‖ in Postmodern Fiction: A Bio– Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery,
Greenwood Press, New York, NY, pp. 157–174 pp. 280–282
―Lyn Hejinian,‖ in Postmodern Fiction: A Bio– Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery,
Greenwood Press, New York, NY, pp. 157–174, pp. 400–403
―Barrett Watten,‖ in Postmodern Fiction: A Bio– Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery,
Greenwood Press, New York, NY, pp. 157–174, pp. 539–542
―The Shipwreck of the Singular: The Evolution of the Sentence in George Oppen‘s Verse,‖ Temblor, No.
5, 1987, pp. 117–19
―‗My Vocabulary Did This to Me,‘‖ Acts, No. 6, 1987, pp. 67–71
―Tight Corners,‖ The Difficulties: David Bromige issue, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1987, pp. 47–53
―Pete Seeger and the Avant-Garde,‖ Socialist Review, No. 92, Vol. 17, No. 2, March–April, 1987, pp.
120–28
―Postmodernism: Sign for a Struggle, the Struggle for the Sign,‖ Poetics Journal, No. 7, September, 1987,
pp. 18–39; reprinted in Contemporary American Poet-Critics, op. cit.; translated into Serbian by
Dubravka Djuric and published in Gradina, Vol. 26, No. 2–3, 1991, Nis, Yugoslavia, pp. 162–179
―Negative Solidarity: Revisionism and ‗New American Poetics‘,‖ Sulfur, No. 22, Spring, 1988, pp. 169–176
―Poetry and the Politics of the Subject,‖ Socialist Review, 88/3, July–September, 1988, pp. 61–68
―Terms of Enjambment,‖ The Line in Postmodern Poetry, edited by Robert Frank and Henry Sayre
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press), pp. 183–184
Untitled note on Robert Duncan, American Poetry, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall, 1988, p. 74
―Aesthetic Tendency and the Politics of Poetry,‖ (co–authored by Barrett Watten, Lyn Hejinian, Carla
Harryman, Steve Benson, and Kit Robinson), Social Text, No. 19/20, Fall, 1988, pp. 261–275
―Poets and Intellectuals,‖ Temblor, No. 9, 1989, pp. 122–124

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―Indeterminacy, Autonomy, Determination,‖ Ottotole, No. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 203–206
―Poetry and the Politics of Everyday Life,‖ Margin, No. 10, 1989, pp. 84–88
Untitled contribution to a symposium on ―Language Poetry,‖ edited by Andrew Ross, Minnesota Review
―Response to the Cream City Review (High vs. Low Art),‖ Cream City Review, date and pagination
unknown
―Canons and Institutions: New Hope for the Disappeared,‖ in The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and
Social Policy, edited by Charles Bernstein (New York: Roof Books, 1990), pp. 149–174
―Unfinished Business: SR at 20,‖ in program for 20th anniversary party of Socialist Review, November 17,
1990
―What/Person: From an Exchange,‖ co-written with Leslie Scalapino, in Poetics Journal, No. 9, June,
1991, pp. 51–68
―What Do Cyborgs Want? / (Paris, Suburb of the Twentieth Century),‖ in Jean Baudrillard: The
Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited by William Stearns and William Chaloupka (St. Martin‘s
Press, New York, NY, 1992) p. 27–37
―I Wanted to Write Sentences: Decision Making in the American Longpoem,‖ in Sagetrieb, Orono, Maine,
Vol. 11, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall, 1992, pp. 11–20
―RSVP: David Hart and others,‖ (responses to a survey on poetry by David Hart,) in Verse, Fife, Scotland
etc, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 110–112
―After Dark,‖ in lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics, No. 6, July, 1993, San Jose, CA, no pagination
―Positioning Theory,‖ in lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics, No. 6, July, 1993, San Jose, CA, no
pagination
―The Practice of Art,‖ afterward to The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets, edited by Dennis Barone
and Peter Ganick, Potes & Poets Press, 1994, pp. 371–379
―Wild Form,‖ in lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics, No. 9, June, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, npd;
republished in Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler,
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, pp. 134–139
―The Task of the Translator: Watten‘s Leningrad,‖ in Aerial 8, Barrett Watten issue, 1995, Washington,
DC, pp. 141–168
―Oh my, Devon Miller–Duggan...‖ in an untitled email exchange between Devon Miller-Duggan, Ron
Silliman, and Chris Semansky from the CAP–L (Contemporary American Poetry) discussion group,
reprinted in Famous Reporter, No. 13, Tasmania, Australia, 1996, p. 14
On ―The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman,‖ in The Impercipient Lecture Series, Vol. 1, No. 4,
May 1997 (special issue devoted to Perelman‘s book, The Marginalization of Poetry), pp. 1–13;
reprinted in Jacket, No. 2, December, 1997 (see ―Electronic Journals‖)
―Silent Teacher,‖ a memoir of Hannah Weiner, in ―On Hannah Weiner: 1928–1997,‖ Poetry Project
Newsletter, No. 167, December 1997–January 1998, pp. 13–14
―Who Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading,‖ in Close Listening: Poetry and the
Performed Word, edited by Charles Bernstein, Oxford University Press, pp. 360–378
―Untitled email correspondence with Jeff Derksen‖ in Philly Talks 3, Philadelphia, PA, January 21, 1998,
no pagination
―The Dysfunction of Criticism: Poets and the Critical Tradition of the Anti–Academy,‖ in Poetics Journal,
No. 10, Detroit, MI and Berkeley, CA, 1998, pp. 179–194
―Post–Reading Discussion,‖ in ―Responses to (mostly) PhillyTalks 3 (Derksen/Silliman) & Post–Reading
Discussion,‖ PhillyTalks 6, edited by Louis Cabris, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, October 11, 1998, pp. 9–17

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―thought or feeling forming,‖ (on the work of Robert Grenier) in Verdure No. 3–4 September 2000–
February 2001, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, pp. 57–60
―What is to be done,‖ published as ―Progressiveness Now,‖ in Masthead 2, issue 4, (originally an email
posted to the Buffalo Poetics List listserve), September, 2001
―Asterisk: Separation at the Threshold of Meaning in the Poetry of Rae Armantrout,‖ in We Who Love to
Be Astonished, edited by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue (Tuscaloosa and London: University of
Alabama Press, 2001), pp. 28–40
―Melnick‘s Pin,‖ in Logopoiea, 2002
Silliman‘s Blog, 2002 – present
―The Desert Modernism‖ and ―A Forest For…‖ in Electronic Poetry Review, No. 4, 2002
―βαρβάροσς‖ in A•bacus, Special Issue: ―The War,‖ April 1, 2003, no pagination
―Politics and Speed,‖ in Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, edited by Nate Dorward,
published as The Gig 13/14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May, 2003, pp. 233–241
―My Twentieth Century,‖ (written for in Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press,
Westminster, CO, apparently unpublished), PLR: Prague Literary Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, Prague, the
Czech Republic, pp. 1 & 4, 2003
―Stein at her Word,‖ in Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, No. 27, Winter, 2004,
Jersey City, NJ, pp. 61–65
―A Study: Ron Silliman on Eileen Tabios and Her Poem ‗Helen,‘ (from Silliman‘s Blog)‖ in Crucial Bliss
Epilogues, by Eileen Tabios, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, 2004, pp. 40–43
―As to Violin Music: Time in the Longpoem,‖ Jacket 27, Balmain, Australia, April, 2005
―Some Thoughts on No Direction Home,‖ The Bridge, No. 23, Winter, 2005, pp. 77–81
―Interview with Geof Huth,‖ co–written with Crag Hill, E–x–c–h–a–n–g–e–V–a–l–u–e–s, July, 2005
―Shapiro‘s ‗A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel‘,‖ in ―Burning Interiors‖: David Shapiro‘s Poetry and
Poetics, edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease, Farleigh Dickenson University Press, Madison &
Teaneck, NJ, 2007, pp. 117–122
―Curator‘s Statement,‖ in Cynthia Miller, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, 2008
―Unlearning to Write,‖ in Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook, ed. Joshua Marie Wilkenson, University of
Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, September, 2010, pp. 40–42; republished on Academy of American Poets
website, Poets.org, September, 2010

FOREWORDS
―The Text, the Beloved?‖ Introduction to The Sophist, by Charles Bernstein, reprint by Salt Publishing,
2004
Introduction to Veil: New and Selected Poems, by Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan Poetry Series, 2001

BROADSIDES & MISCELLANY

Albany, printed by Charles Alexander of Chax Press in Tucson for a reading at Woodland Pattern,
Milwaukee, WI, April 22, 1989
Daniel Bouchard, The Fancy Memory, Ron Silliman, J is for Juvenile, printed by Anchorite Press for poets
reading at Wordsworth Books, Cambridge, MA, June 22, 2004

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TRANSLATIONS OF SILLIMAN WORKS
Croatian
For Change (co–authored with Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob
Perelman) translated as ―Za Promenu‖ by Dubravka Djuric, in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, pp. 251–257
―Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,‖ translated as ―Iscezavanje Reci, Pojavljivanje
Sveta‖ by Adrijana Marcetic in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, pp. 275–290
From Tjanting, translated by Dubravka Djuric and Elena Lacok in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, pp. 345–347

Danish
From Tjanting, translated as ―Mæssende‖ by Claus Schatz–Jakobsen in Den Blå Port: Tidsskrift for
Literature, 33/95, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 34–35; English version published as
―Uddrag af Tjanting,‖ pp. 33–34
An abridged version of ―The New Sentence,‖ translated as ―Den Ny Sætning‖ by Line Brandt in Nye
Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 45–59
―Migratory Meaning‖ translated as ―Nomadisk Betydning‖ by Line Brandt in Nye Sætninger, Legenda
No. 2, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 61–83
From ―Hidden‖ translated as ―Af: Skjult‖ by Allan Milter Jakobsen in Krydsord, Legenda No. 3, 2001,
København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 55–59
From Tjanting translated as ―Af: Mæssende‖ by Allan Milter Jakobsen in Krydsord, Legenda No. 3, 2001,
København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 99–102
From Ketjak translated as ―Af: Ketjak‖ by Allan Milter Jakobsen in Krydsord, Legenda No. 3, 2001,
København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 153–155

Dutch
―Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,‖ translated as ―De verdwijning van het word, De
verschijning van de wereld‖ by Sascha Bru in Yang, No. 191, November 2000, pp. 385–393
―Final For,‖ from VOG, translated as ―Net Voor‖ by Ton Vanthof in Poezie Pamflet, October, 2004
From ―Sunset Debris,‖ translated as ―Zonsondergangspuin,‖ by Han van der Vegty and Arnoud van
Adrichem in Parmentier, Vol. 17, No. 2, June, 2008, pp. 115–120
―The Chinese Notebook,‖ translated as ―Het Chinese notitieboek,‖ by Han van der Vegt and Arnoud van
Adrichem in DW B, December, 2008, pp. 787–812

Estonian
From What, translated by Julius Urt in Paevaleht, February 3, 1991, Tallin, Estonia, USSR, p. 2

Finnish
From Sunset Debris, translated as Auringonlaskun roinaa by Aki Salmela, in Tuli&Savu, Helsinki, Finland,
2003, run on top border of pages 1–60

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French
―Introduction Collective au Movement de Language Poetry,‖ co–authored with Barrett Watten, Steve
Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman, translated by Jean–Pierre Faye, in
Change, No. 41, March, 1982
From Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, translated as ―S‘asseyant, debout, marchant,‖ by Jean Pierre
Faye, in Change, No. 41, March, 1982, Paris, France, pp. 178–179
From Tjanting, translated as ―Trace,‖ by Philippe Jaworski in Bulletin A.R.C. Litterature, Musée d‘Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, No. 162, 1986, pp. 659–660; reprinted in 21 + 1: Poetes
americains d‘aujourd‘hui, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet–Journoud, Delta,
Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1986, pp. 205–207
From 2197, ―Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap,‖ translated as ―D‘hiver aux Patineurs et au
Piège á oiseau,‖ by Martin Richet, in 25 Poétes américains traduits, pp. 65-70

German
―Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,‖ translated by Peter Tischert and printed
bilingually as ―Verschwinden des Wortes, Erscheinen der Welt,‖ in Amerikanische Poetologie: Lyriker
and Lyrikerinnen der USA in Selbstaussagen und Gedichten—Eine Zweisprachige Auswahl, edited
by Helmbrecht Breinig, Bamberg: University of Bamberg Library, ―Bamberger Editionen, Harald
Wentzlaff-Eggebert general editor, 1996, pp. 506–533

Italian
From Ketjak, translated as ―Porta girevole,‖ by Franco La Polla, in Carte Segrete, Nuova Serie, No. 1,
1984, Rome, Italy, pp. 133–135
From ―The Chinese Notebook,‖ translated as ―da Il Quaderno Cinese,‖ by William Pagnotta in
Postmoderno E Letteratura, edited by Peter Carravetta and Paoloi Spedicato, Studi Bompiani,
Milano, Italy, 1984, pp. 318–325
From Tjanting, translated without title by Gianlucca Rizzo, in Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco,
edited by Luigi Ballerini & Paul Vangelisti, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2006
From ―Sunset Debris,‖ translated as ―da Sunset Debris‖ by Gherardo Bortolotti, on Gamm.org website,
Milano, July, 2007
From The New Sentence, translated by Gherardo Bortolotti in L‘Ulisse – Rivista di Poesia, Arti e Scritture,
April 25, 2010, N. 13, pp. 22-43

Japanese
From ―I Am Marion Delgado,‖ translated by Shuri Kido in Gendaishi Techo, Japan, January, 1988, pp.
381–382

Russian
From ―The Chinese Notebook,‖ translated by Viktor Mazin, published in a samizdat magazine, Leningrad,
circa 1987
―The New Sentence,‖ translated by Viktor Mazin, said to have appeared in a magazine in Riga, Latvia

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From ―The Chinese Notebook,‖ sections 1–25, translated by Aleskii Prokopeva, in COBPEMEHHAЯ
AMERИKAHCKAЯ ПOЭЭЯ, edited by April Lindner, introduction by Dana Gioia, no publisher given,
no location given, 2008, pp. 56–63
―You, (Part XXXVI,) translated by Aleskii Prokopeva, in COBPEMEHHAЯ AMERИKAHCKAЯ ПOЭЭЯ,
edited by April Lindner, introduction by Dana Gioia, no publisher given, no location given, 2008, pp.
64–67

Serbian
―Postmodernism: Sign for a Struggle, Struggle for the Sign,‖ translated into Serbian by Dubravka Djuric
and published in Gradina, Vol. 26, No. 2–3, 1991, Nis, Yugoslavia, pp. 162–179
―Leningrad,‖ excerpts translated by Dubravka Djuric and published in Rusky Almanac, No. 2, Belgrade,
Serbia, pp. 232–241
―Skies, II,‖ translated by Dubravka Djuric and published in Ovdia, No. 286, October, 1992, Podgoritsa,
Serbia, p. 18; reprinted as ―Neba II‖ in Jezik, Poezija, Postmodernizam: Jezička Poeizija U Kontekstu
Moderne / Postmoderne Američke Poezije, by Dubravka Đurić (Oktoih 2002, Belgrade, Serbia), pp.
206–207
From ―The Chinese Notebook,‖ translated by Dubravka Djuric as ―Kinseka Beležnica,‖ in Antologija
novije američke poezije: Novi Presnički Poredak, October 2001, edited by Dubravka Đjuric and
Vladimir Kopicl, pp. 221–235

“Serbocroatian”
For Change, (co–authored with Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob
Perelman,) translated as ―Za Promenu‖ by Dubravka Djuric in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, pp. 251–257

Spanish
From Ketjak, translated by Estaban Pujals Gesali in La Pagina, No. 2, February–May, 1990, Tenerife,
Canary Islands, pp. 132–135
From The Age of Huts: ―Sunset Debris,‖ (a fragment); from ABC: ―Blue‖; from Ketjak (a fragment), La
Lengua Radical: Antologia de la poesia norteamericana contemporanea, edited and translated by
Esteban Pujals Gesali, 1992, Gramma Poesia, Madrid, Spain, pp. 313–331
―From Toner, Lit, Paradise and Manifest‖ with English facing, translated by Manual Brito, in Cuadernos
del Ateneo de La Laguna, No. 2, 1997, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, pp. 31–35
―If by ‗Writing‘ We Mean Literature,‖ translated into Spanish as ―Si por ‗Escritura‘ Queremos Decir
Literatura‖ by Margarita Mele, in Nerter, No. 1, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Otoño–Invierno,
1999, pp. 38–39
―Considerations of Representability‖ from The Age of Huts, translated as ―Consideraciones de
Representabildad,‖ translated by Manuel Brito in la Pagina 58 (Año XVI, numero 4, 2004), Santa Cruz
de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, pp. 44–61 (with the original English on facing pages)
From ―The Chinese Notebook‖ (1–25), in Líneas conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos, edited
by April Lindner, translation editor Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, 2006, pp.
32–39
―Considerations of Representability‖ from The Age of Huts, translated as ―Consideraciones de
Representabildad,‖ excerpts from opening and closing of Tjanting translated as ―Esto no....,‖ section
XI of Toner translated as ―XI,‖ excerpt from Paradise translated as ―El gato ronronea que tiene la

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 lengua escondida....,‖ excerpt from Toner translated as ―Toner,‖ ―From Theory to Practice,‖
translated as ―De la Teoria a la Practica,‖ unpublished letters to Lyn Hejinian (dated 12.6.76) and
Bruce Andrews (dated 7.30.79), all translated by Manuel Brito, in an anthology of language poetry as
yet untitled, forthcoming

WORKS ABOUT SILLIMAN

Journal Features
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, Vol. 2, No. 2, edited by Tom Beckett, Kent, OH, 1985
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at
Santa Cruz, 1998
Jacket 39: Ron Silliman Feature, includes Poems from Crow; ―Questioning the Limits of Language: The
New Sentence in Ron Silliman‘s Poetry & Poetics,‖ by Manuel Brito; ―What,‖ by Jordan Davis; ―‗Pay
More Attention‘: Silliman‘s BART and Contemporary ‗Everyday Life Projects‘,― by Andrew Epstein;
―The Residual Work: Tjanting and the Poetics of Experience,‖ by Andy Gricevich; ―No Content Left:
Silliman‘s Transit,‖ by Ian Keenan; ―From Practice, to Reading,‖ by T.C. Marshall; ―The Labor of
Repetition: Silliman‘s ‗Quips‘ and the Politics of Intertextuality,‖ by Lytle Shaw; ―Closer Readers,‖ by
Dale Smith; ―Projective Recursion: The Structure of Ron Silliman‘s Tjanting,‖ by William Watkin; ―Ron
Silliman and the Ethnicization of the Avant-Garde,‖ by Timothy Yu, January, 2010, 170 printed pages

Conferences & Panels

―Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes: Reading Ron Silliman,‖ MLA. 111th Convention, Chicago,
December, 1995. Chaired by Charles Bernstein; included, ―Do Tell: Ketjak and Stein‘s Narration,‖ by
Tom Marshall; ―Composing the Social: Poetic Form and Social Formation in the Work of Ron
Silliman,‖ by Steve Evans; and ―What the El: Lit and Other Word Wiggles,‖ by Tom Vogler
―The Alphabet: A Symposium on Ron Silliman‘s Long Poem,‖ University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario,
upcoming on March 25–26, 2011

Critical writing about the work of Ron Silliman

―Signification (On Ron Silliman‘s The Chinese Notebook),‖ by Bruce Andrews, Margins, Milwaukee, 1975;
republished in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (Evanston: Northwestern University Press,
1996), pp. 173–175
―‘Mohawk‘ and ‗Ketjak‘,‖ by Barrett Watten, in ―Ron Silliman Feature,‖ L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No.
4, August, 1978, op. cit., no pagination
―‘Ketjak‘,‖ by Bob Perelman, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1978, pp. 22–23
―The Tenderloin Times,‖ by Dwight Chapin, San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 7, 1979, Section B, p. 1
―Ketjak in San Francisco,‖ by Steve Benson, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 2, No. 8, June, 1979, no
pagination; reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 272–273
―‘Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps‘,‖ by John Yau, The Downtown Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1979, p. 25
―‘Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps‘,‖ by Henry Hills, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 3, No. 11, January,
1980, no pagination; reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 273–274
―On the Bus,‖ by Evelyn Pine, Artbeat, May/June, 1981, San Francisco, CA, p. 31
―What Does This Do With You Reading?‖ by Jed Rasula, Poetics Journal, No. 1, January, 1982, Oakland
and Berkeley, CA, pp. 66–67

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―After Sentence, Sentence,‖ by Michael Davidson, American Book Review, September–October, 1982,
op. cit., p. 3
―The Crisis at Present: Talk Poems and the New Poet‘s Prose,‖ Poet‘s Prose: the Crisis in American
Verse, by Stephen Fredman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1983, pp. 134–169
Untitled review of ABC and 4 other books, by Geoffrey O‘Brien, VLS 25 (Voice Literary Supplement), The
Village Voice, April, 1984, pp. 8–9
―The Word as Such,‖ by Marjorie Perloff, American Poetry Review, Philadelphia, PA, Vol. 13, No. 3,
May/June, 1984, pp. 15–22; reprinted in Dance of the Intellect, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK, 1986
―Letter, Word, Sentence,‖ by Fred Moramarco, San Diego Reader, pagination and date not known
(probably 1984 or 1985)
Total Syntax, by Barrett Watten, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1984, throughout
―The Fourth Wave‖ by Wilbur Wood, Bay Guardian, April 3, 1985, pp. 14–22
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, op. cit., edited by Tom Beckett; includes untitled interview by Tom
Beckett, ―Places in Hayward‖ by Larry Eigner, ―Ron Silliman‖ by Hannah Weiner, ―Corpses that
Devour Their Own Flesh‖ by Bruce Andrews, ―‗The Community of Sound‘‖ by Rae Armantrout,
―‗Exorcise Your Monkey‘: Reading ‗Ketjak‘‖ by Jerry Estrin, ―Silent Tjanting: Notations for Translation,‖
by Chris Domingo and David Martin, ―A Note on ‗Tjanting‘,‖ by David Bromige, ―Plus + Mysterious /
Life – Like Labor‖ by Robert Grenier, ―Taking a Stand‖ by James Sherry, ―?s to .s‖ by Alan Davies,
―Narrating Narration: The Shapes of Ron Silliman‘s Work,‖ by Charles Bernstein, ―Ron Silliman: A
Bibliography,‖ by Tom Beckett
―All That Heaven Allows: Paradise in the Trenches,‖ by Joel Lewis, Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 117,
December, 1985, pp. 1, 8
Untitled review of Paradise, unsigned (but by Brad Morrow) in Conjunctions, No. 8, 1986, p. 256
―Looming on/in Paradise,‖ by Bill Luoma, The Archive Newsletter, UCSD Libraries, Winter, 1986, pp. 14–
17
―Tenderloin Poets Publish Two Volumes of Verse,‖ by Emily Cutler, Tenderloin Times, February, 1986, p.
10
―New Language of the Muses,‖ by David Melnick, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Section, April 6,
1986, p. 5
Untitled review of The Difficulties: by Sylvester Pollet, Sagetrieb, 1986, p. 154
Untitled review of The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, by John Byrum, PLGC NWSLTR: The Poet‘s
League of Greater Cleveland Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 5–6
―What I See in the Silliman Project,‖ by Thomas White (Stephen Rodefer), Jimmy & Lucy‘s House of ―K,‖
No. 6, May, 1986, pp. 137–145; republished in Chicago Review, Vol. 54, No. 3, Winter 2009,
Chicago, pp. 53–59
―Silliman‘s Paradise,‖ by Fanny Howe, Poetics Journal, No. 6, 1986, pp. 133–134
―What is ‗Language Poetry‘?‖ by Lee Bartlett, Critical Inquiry No. 12, Summer, 1986, pp. 741–752
―From the Language Poets,‖ by Robert Creeley, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Section, September
28, 1986, p. 8
―Silliman‘s Phoenix: A Bird of ‗Paris dyes,‖‘ by Steve Abbott, Poetry Flash, No. 163, October, 1986, pp. 1,
9, 20
―Another Look at ‗The Tree‘,‖ by Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Section, October 12, 1986,
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―Ron Silliman,‖ by Rae Armantrout, Postmodern Fiction: A Bio– Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry
McCaffery, Greenwood Press, New York, NY, 1986, pp. 503–505
―Life in Poetry City,‖ by Ken Edwards, City Limits, London, UK, January 1–8, 1987, no pagination
Untitled review of The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, by John Bryum, Small Press, January–February,
1987, pp. 69–70
Untitled review of In the American Tree, in Small Press Book Review, March–April, 1987, pp. 9–10
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Chuck Cody, The Archive Newsletter, Spring 1987, pp. 32–35
―Reading the Words,‖ review of In the American Tree, by Stephen–Paul Martin, American Book Review,
Vol. 9, No. 4, 1987, p. 20
―Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes,‖ by Jerome J. McGann, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring,
1987, pp. 624–647; reprinted in Social Values and Poetic Acts: The Historical Judgment of Literary
Work, Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London, UK, 1988
―‗Stalin as Linguist,‖‘ by Tom Clark, Partisan Review, Vol. LIV, No. 2, 1987, pp. 299–304
Untitled commentary by Jim Hartz and Sam Moorman, The American Poetry Archive News, Vol. 4, No. 2,
Spring, 1987, p. 5
Untitled review of In The American Tree (in Serbian) by David Albanari, Pismo, No. 10, Yugoslavia,
Summer, 1987, pp. 243–244
Untitled review of Paradise by Dan Beaver, Gargoyle, 32/33, 1987, p. 323
―Language Writing,‖ by Jerome J. McGann, London Review of Books, October 15, 1987, pp. 6–8
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Michael Duff, Small Press, October, 1987, pp. 72–73
―Language Poetry, 1971–1986,‖ by Don Byrd, Sulfur 20, 1987, pp. 149–157
―The Words Are Never Our Own,‖ by George Hartley, Temblor, No. 6, 1987, pp. 137–138
―The New Sentence and the Commodity Form: Recent American Writing,‖ by Andrew Ross in Marxism
and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, University of Illinois
Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1987, pp. 361–380
Untitled review of The New Sentence, unsigned (but by Kevin Killian or Dodie Bellamy), in Traffic No. 7,
October–December, 1987, p.2
Untitled review of In the American Tree, by Ken Edwards in Reality Studios, Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 87–90
―The Science of Writing,‖ by Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash, No. 178, January, 1988, pp. 1, 4–7
―My First Try at the Tree,‖ by David I. Sheidlower, Jimmy & Lucy‘s House of ―K,‖ No. 8, January, 1988,
pp. 31–36
―Ett f_rnyat intresse f_r spraket,‖ by Gunnar Harding, Dagenns Nyhetter, Sweden, January 27, 1988
―Reading Ron Silliman‘s BART on Bart: Serial Syntax and Paradise,‖ by Rob Wilson, American Poetry,
Vol. 5, No. 3, Winter ,1988, pp. 33–41
Untitled review of In the American Tree, by Bill Mohr, Aerial, No. 4, 1988, pp. 92–101
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Alan Golding, American Poetry, Vol. 5, No. 3, Spring, 1988,
pp. 93–96
―Radical Collages,‖ by Hank Lazer, The Nation, July 2–9, 1988, pp. 24–26; reworked slightly as ―Outlaw
to Classic: The Poetry of Charles Bernstein and Ron Silliman,‖ Chapter 1 of Opposing Poetries, Vol.
Two: Readings (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996) pp. 6–18
―Sentences in Space,‖ by George Hartley, Temblor, No. 7, 1988, pp. 89–91; reprinted on the Electronic
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―Many Messages, Complex Rhythms,‖ by Dawn Kolokithas, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Section, p.
7, October 30, 1988
―Ron Silliman: Non–Hierarchical Perception,‖ in Open Form and the Feminine Imagination: The Politics of
Reading in Twentieth–Century Innovative Writing, by Stephen–Paul Martin, Maissoneuve Press,
Washington, 1988, pp. 173–185
―Notes sur Quelques Poetes Americains,‖ by Joseph Simas, Action Poetique, Nos. 113–114, 1988, pp.
131–134
―‗Deficit Writing‘,‖ by Bruce Campbell, Temblor, No. 8, 1988, pp. 9–10
―Skewed by Design: From Act to Speech Act in Language–Writing,‖ by Michael Davidson, paper
presented at the MLA, December, 1988
―Opposing Poetry,‖ by Hank Lazer, Contemporary Literature, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 142–150;
republished under the same title as chapter 2 of Opposing Poetries: Vol. One: Issues & Institutions
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996), pp. 37–46
―Indifference: Mike Bidlo and Ron Silliman,‖ by Thad Ziolkowski, Sulfur 24, Spring, 1989, pp. 204–210
―Academic argle–bargle in Montana,‖ by Cyra McFadden, San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, May 21,
1989, p. E-1, E-4
―‗Negative Solidarity‘ Revisited – an editorial assemblage,‖ Temblor, No. 9, 1989, p. 118
―A Compliment to Ron Silliman‘s ‗Negative Solidarity‘ in Sulfur 22 & A Note on Lyrical Contention,‖ by
Benjamin Hollander, Temblor, No. 9, 1989, pp. 119–120
―A Note on Silliman‘s ‗Negative Solidarity‘ in Sulfur 22,‖ by David Levi Strauss, Temblor, No. 9, p. 121
Untitled review of What, unsigned (by Kevin Killian and/or Dodie Bellamy), Traffic, No. 11, June–August,
1989, p. 6
Textual Politics and the Language Poets, by George Hartley, University of Indiana Press, 1989,
throughout
Untitled review of What, by Linda A. Frost, Minnesota Review, 1989, pp. 154–157
―The New Sentence‖ review (in Spanish with English translation) by Carmen Africa Vidal, Arena:
International Art, Madrid, Spain, December, 1989, pp. 110–111
―The Lightweight Contenders‘ New Clothes,‖ by William Harmon, Parnassus, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 99–124
―A Paradigm Lost: Ron Silliman‘s Paradise and the Archaeology of Language,‖ by Stephen-Paul Martin,
Sagetrieb, Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring and Fall, 1989, pp. 201–208
―Ideology and Theory in Recent Experimental Writing, or, The Naming of ‗Language Poetry‘,‖ by Michael
Greer, boundary 2, Vol 16, Nos. 2/3. pp. 335–355
―The Seduction of Mimi: Language Maligned,‖ by Robert Buckeye, Contact II, Spring, 1990, pp. 56–58
―Wittgensteiniana,‖ by Charles Bernstein (review of The Age of Huts and several other books), Fiction
International, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 72–84
―The Genealogy of Postmodernism: Contemporary American Poetry,‖ by Albert Gelpi, The Southern
Review, Summer, 1990, pp. 517–541
―The Alphabet, Spelt from Silliman‘s Leaves (A Heideggerian Dialogue),‖ by Anne Mack and J.J. Rome
(pseudonym for Jerome McGann), South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 4, Fall, 1990, pp. 737–759
―The Body of Politics and the Politics of Form,‖ by Don Wellman, O.ars, No. 8, Winter, 1990/91, pp. 92–95
―Ron Silliman: una poeta L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,‖ by Manuel Brito, Syntaxis 25, Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spring, 1991, pp. 101–106

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―Regarding the Issue of ‗New Forms,‘‖ by Nathaniel Tarn, in Views from the Weaving Mountain: Selected
Essays in Poetics & Anthropology, American Poetry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991 (apparently first published in Tyuoni), reprinted in Jacket, No. 6, 1998
Untitled review of Leningrad by Marjorie Perloff, Sulfur 29, Fall, 1991, pp. 216–221
Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue, by Linda Reinfeld, Louisiana State University Press, 1992,
throughout
―Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics,‖ by Marjorie Perloff,‖ Contemporary Literature, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2,
Summer, 1992, pp. 191–213; reprinted in a revised format as ―Running Against the Walls of Our
Cage,‖ in Wittgenstein‘s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, University
of Chicago Press, 1996, (see especially pp. 200–205)
―Textured Information: Politics, Pleasure, and Poetry in the Eighties,‖ by Roger Gilbert, Contemporary
Literature, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 243–274
―Appearance of a World,‖ by Ray Davis, 1992. Published on his website: Pseudopodium
―Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice,‖ by Bob Perelman, American
Literature, Vol. 65, No. 2, June, 1993, pp. 313–324; published as chapter four of The Marginalization
of Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 59–78; republished in From Artifice to
Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to the Present, edited by Christopher Beach
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998), pp. 24–48
―Reading & Writing Ron Silliman‘s Demo to Ink,‖ by Hank Lazer, and ―Paratactics and Hypostrategies (a
response to Ron Silliman‘s ‗Positioning Theory‘),‖ by Tyrus Miller, lower limit speech, No. 7, Fall,
1993, no pagination
―Language Poetry,‖ by Michael Davidson, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited
by Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 675–676 (see also
―American Poetry,‖ pp. 47–66)
―A Poetics of Its Own Occasion,‖ by Paul Mann, Contemporary Literature, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, pp. 171–181
―‗A Silly Corpse?‘: The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, Stein, and the Nonsense of Reference,‖ in Touch
Monkeys: Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth–Century Poetry, by Marnie Parsons, University
of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 170–205
―Save Silliman from The Alphabet,‖ by Gary Sullivan, Exile, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer, 1994, p. 2
Untitled review of N/O, by Peter Ganick, Poetic Briefs, No. 19, August, 1995, pp. 13–14
―Fra Stein til Waldrop: sprogdigtningen og de nye prosadigtere,‖ by Michel Delville, translated from the
French into Danish by Claus Schatz–Jakobsen in Den Blå Port: Tidsskrift for Literature, 33/95,
København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 17–30
―Do Tell: Ketjak and Stein‘s Narration,‖ by Tom Marshall, in ―Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes:
Reading Ron Silliman,‖ MLA 111th Convention, Chicago, December, 1995
―Composing the Social: Poetic Form and Social Formation in the Work of Ron Silliman,‖ by Steve Evans,
in ―Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes: Reading Ron Silliman,‖ MLA. 111th Convention,
Chicago, December, 1995
―What the El: Lit and Other Word Wiggles,‖ by Tom Vogler, in ―Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes:
Reading Ron Silliman,‖ MLA. 111th Convention, Chicago, December, 1995
Listed in Contemporary Poets, sixth edition, St. James Press, 1995
Literary Voice: The Calling of the Jonah, by Donald Wesling and Tadeusz Slawek, State University of
New York Press, 1995
―Self/Ideology: Corpses that Devour Their Own Flesh,‖ by Bruce Andrews (reworked from The Difficulties,
1985) in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), pp.
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―Reading & Writing Ron Silliman‘s Demo to Ink,‖ by Hank Lazer (republished from lower limit speech,
1993) in Opposing Poetries: Vol. Two: Readings (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996),
pp. 168–176
Untitled Review of Demo to Ink by Tom Vogler, Traffic, No. 17, Spring 1996, pp. 4–5
―Disappearance of Theory, Appearance of Praxis: Ron Silliman, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and the Essay,‖
by William Lavender, in Poetics Today, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer, 1996, pp. 181–202
―Shadow and Ash,‖ by Samuel R. Delaney, in Longer Views: Extended Essays (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan
University Press, 1996), pp. 144–173
―Ron Silliman,‖ by Thomas Marshall, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 169: American Poets
since World War II, Fifth Series edited by Joseph Conte (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Gale
Research, 1996), pp. 253–266
―Mr. Silliman Sale del Campus y Escribe Poesía Contemporánea,‖ by Manuel Brito (in Spanish),
Cauderno del Ateneo de La Laguna, No. 2, 1997, pp. 27–30
―This L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,‖ by Kate Lilley, Jacket No. 2, 1997
―New, Newer, and Newest American Poetries,‖ by Alan Golding, Chicago Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 1997,
pp. 7–21; reprinted in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American
Poetry in Our Time, edited by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman House Publishers,
Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002, pp. 684–694
―A Chance to Write: Paoli Resident‘s Pew Grant Leaves Time for Poetry,‖ by Aileen E. Gallagher, in
Arcade, Vol. 5, No. 20, arts supplement to Suburban Publications newspapers, July 16, 1998, p. 9
(Photos by John Welsh)
―Market analyst–poet Ron Silliman receives Pew Trust artistic grant,‖ unsigned (but written by Michael
Globetti), TSS Access, Vol. 4, No. 3, July/August, 1998, West Chester, PA, p. 13 (internal newsletter
of IBM)
―Language Poetry and the New Prose Poem,‖ in The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the
Boundaries of Genre, by Michel Delville, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998, pagination
unknown
―Poetics, Polemics and the Question of Intelligibility,‖ by Ben Friedlander, Postmodern Culture,
September, 1998
―Responses to (mostly) PhillyTalks 3 (Derksen/Silliman) & Post–Reading Discussion,‖ PhillyTalks 6,
edited by Louis Cabris, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 11, 1998 (entire issue),
including (among other works), ―I Used to Be Amused. Now, I‘m just Disgusted,‖ by Andrew
Klobucar, ―untitled,‖ by Michael Magee, ―PhillyTalks #3 (Notes After Reading),‖ by Ben Friedlander,
―A Response to Ron Silliman and Jeff Derksen,‖ by Peter Jaeger
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at
Santa Cruz, includes ―E-mail Interview with Ron Silliman,‖ by Thomas C. Marshall and Thomas A.
Vogler; ―‗Nevermore‘ than: Form, Content and Gesture in Ketjak,‖ by Thomas C. Marshall;
―Education, Equality and Ethnography in The Alphabet,‖ by Hank Lazer; ―Public Poetry: Ron Silliman
and the Value of Writing,‖ by Tyrus Miller; ―The Labor of Repetition,‖ by Lytle Shaw; ―Reading
Silliman Writing,‖ by Thomas A. Vogler; ―The Language Poet as Autobiographer,‖ by Marjorie Perloff,
October, 1998
―Tottel‘s,‖ entry in A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960–1980, written
and edited by Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips in conjunction with the show by the same name at the
New York Public Library (New York: NY Public Library/Granary Books, 1998), pp. 242–244
―Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman‘s Albany, Susan Howe‘s Buffalo,‖ in Critical Inquiry,
Vol. 25, No. 3, Spring, 1999, pp. 405–434, reprinted in a revised form as ―Language Poetry and the
Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman‘s Albany, Susan Howe‘s Buffalo,‖ by Marjorie Perloff, in Differentials:
Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, University of Alabama Press, 2004, pp. 129–154

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―The Secret History of the Equal Sign: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E between Discourse and Text,‖ Barrett
Watten, Poetics Today, Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 581–627
―Poetry of Play, Poetry of Purpose: The Continuity of American Language Poetry,‖ John R. Woznicki,
Moria: A Poetry Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, Spring, 2000
Paper on Legend given by Estaban Pujals at ―Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in
American Poetry,‖ May 18–20, 2000, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
―Verse vs. Verse: The Language Poets are taking over the academy but will success destroy their
integrity,‖ by Andrew Epstein, Lingua Franca, Vol. 10, No. 6, September, 2000, pp. 45–54
―Poets reflect through modernist mirror,‖ by Lauren Bialystok, The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 18, 2000
―Opgelet. Hier spreekt het kapitalisme,‖ by Geert Buelens (in Dutch), in Yang, No. 191, November 2000,
pp. 394–395
Untitled review of  , in ―Pouch Notes,‖ by Dale Smith, in The Possum Pouch, April, 2001
―Sætninger,‖ by Per Aage Brandt, in Nye Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København (Copenhagen),
Denmark, pp. 129–132 (in Danish)
―Language Poetry: Dissident Practices and the Makings of a Movement,‖ by Eleana Kim, in Readme No.
4, May, 2001
―Canadian Feminist Writing and American Poetry,‖ by Eugenia Sojka in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature
and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2001
―A Short History of Language Poetry / According to ‗Hecuba Whimsy,‘‖ by Ben Friedlander, in Qui Parle,
Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 107–142; reprinted in Friedlander‘s Simulcast: Four
Experiments in Criticism, University of Alabama Press, 2004
―Ron Silliman,‖ by Robert Miltner, in Encyclopedia of American Poetry, edited by Eric Haralson, Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, New York, NY, pagination unknown
―The Political ‗World‘ of the Language Poets,‖ in Ideological Content and Political Significance of
Twentieth-Century American Poetry, by John R. Woznicki, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY,
Queenston, Ontario, Canada and Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, UK, 2002, pp. 151–214
―Z–Sited Path: Late Zukofsky and His Tradition,‖ by Mark Scroggins, in The World in Time and Space:
Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, ed. by Edward Foster and Joseph
Donahue, Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, NJ, 2002, pp. 147–160

―‗If This Were the Place to Begin‘: Little Magazines and the Early Language Poetry Scene,‖ by Susan
Venderborg, in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in
Our Time, ed. by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, NJ,
2002, pp. 298–320 (see especially ―Transforming the Image: A Modern Tottel‘s,‖ pp. 303–304)
―Language Writing,‖ by Susan M. Schultz, in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of
Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, ed. by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman
House Publishers, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002, pp. 321–332
―A Complex Realism: Reading Spring and All as Seminal for Postmodern Poetry,‖ by Donald Wellman, in
William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry, ed. by Burton Hatlen and Demetres
Tryphonopoulos, National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine, 2002, pp. 297–317
―The Days of Our Blogs,‖ by Brian Kim Stefans, in The Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 192, December
2002–January 2003, pp. 5–6
Jezik, Poezija, Postmodernizam: Jezička Poeizija U Kontekstu Moderne / Postmoderne Američke
Poezije, by Dubravka Đurić (Oktoih 2002, Belgrade, Serbia)

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"'Isn't the avant-garde always pedagogical': Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy," by Alan Golding, in
The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2002, pp. 64–70; subsequently published in Poetry and Pedagogy,
eds. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 13–29
―Ron Silliman‘s Language Poetry,‖ by S.F. Danckaert, Hillsdale Collegian, April 24, 2003, Hillsdale, MI
―El autor al poder: Internet weblogs o la muerte del editor,‖ by Sergio Coddou, El Mercurio, 8 June, 2003,
Santiago, Chile,
―Language Poetry and Collective Life,‖ by Oren Izenberg, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 29, No. 4, Autumn, 2003,
Chicago, IL, pp. 132–159
―‗No Other Sentence Could Have Followed But This:‘ Ron Silliman‘s Tjanting,‖ by Thomas Fink, in Titanic
Operas, 2004
―The (Writers) Workshop,‖ by Kathryn Mingione, photographs by Luigi Ciuffetelli, Main Line Today, March
2004, pp. 50–57 (esp. pp. 52, 54–55)
Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism, by Benjamin Friedlander, University of Alabama Press, 2004,
throughout
"'Isn't the avant-garde always pedagogical': Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy," by Alan Golding, in
Poetry and Pedagogy, eds. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr, Palgrave Macmillan, February, 2006,
pp. 13–29; previously published in a shorter form in The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2002, pp. 64–
70
―‗What about all this writing?‘ Williams and Alternative Poetics,‖ by Alan Golding in Textual Practice, Vol.
18, No. 2, 2004, pp. 265–282
―Line and Rhythm,‖ by Dale Smith, in House Organ, No. 48, Fall, 2004, no pagination
Untitled review of Under Albany, by Mark Tursi, in Rain Taxi Online Edition, Spring, 2005
―Poetry Off the Books: The Internet is where poetry proliferates,‖ by Craig Morgan Teicher, Publishers
Weekly, April 10, 2006, pp. 22–25
―Publishers Covet the Well–Placed Blog,‖ by Cheri Hanson, Vancouver Sun, Weekend Review section,
September 30, 2006, p. C10
―Silliman Commentaries,‖ by Brian Kim Stefans, Before Starting Over, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK,
2006, pp. 214–237 (includes ―July 02, 2003: ‗Silliman on Lowell‘,‖ pp. 214–221; ―July 04, 2003: ‗The
Third Way, Etc.‘,‖ pp. 222–224; ―July 07, 2003: ‗Bells & Whistles‘,‖ pp. 225–228; ―July 08, 2003:
‗More CPR for Silliman and Lowell‘,‖ pp. 229–233; and ―July 09, 2003: ‗Further Notes from the
Underground,‘‖ pp. 234–237)
―The Poetry of Questions,‖ by Thomas Fink, Jacket 34, Balmain, Australia, 2007
―N/O by Ron Silliman,‖ review by Eric Hoffman in galatea resurrects No. 8, November 29, 2007
Untitled review of The Age of Huts (compleat) by Alan Davies, Poetry Project Newsletter, New York, NY,
February/March 2008, pp. 19–21
―‗There is No Content Here, Only Dailiness‘: Poetry as Critique of Everyday Life in Ron Silliman‘s The Age
of Huts,‖ talk by Andrew Epstein given at ―Poetry of the 1970s‖ conference sponsored by the National
Poetry Foundation at the University of Maine, Orono, June, 2008
―Ron Silliman‘s The Chinese Notebook and the Materialities of Communication,‖ talk given by Scott
Pound at ―Poetry of the 1970s ― conference sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation at the
University of Maine, Orono, June, 2008
―Hypnotist–Collectors: The ‗New Sentence‘ in Cage and Silliman,‖ talk given by Stan Apps at ―Poetry of
the 1970s‖ conference sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation at the University of Maine,
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―Contestatory Writing Practices in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Seventies—New Sentence, New
Narrative—What Subject(s)? What Bodies? What Politics?,‖ by Robin Tremblay–McGaw, paper for
―Poetry of the 1970s‖ conference sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation at the University of
Maine, Orono, June, 2008
―The Small Press Traffic School of Dissimulation,‖ by Kaplan P. Harris, part of ―New Narrative—New
Sentence—New Left‖ panel at ―Poetry of the 1970s‖ conference sponsored by the National Poetry
Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, June, 2008
―Sunset Debris by Ron Silliman: Interrogation as a Form of Poetry,‖ by Luminita Suse.
LuminitaSuse.com, 2007
Untitled review of The Age of Huts (Compleat), by William Christopher Purdom. Philadelphia Public Art
website, undated
―Considering the Long Poem: Genre Problems,‖ by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, paper for ―A Conference on
the Long Poem,‖ University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, May, 2008
Untitled Review of The Alphabet, by Peter Skinner, ForeWord Magazine, Jan/Feb, 2009
Untitled Review of The Alphabet, by John Herbert Cunningham, in The Quarterly Conversation, 2009
― ‗Language Poetry‘? It‘s All Words,‖ review of The Alphabet, by Andrew Ervin, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2008
―Reading Ron Silliman‘s The Alphabet,‖ review by C.A. Conrad, on his weblog PhillySound: New Poetry,
November 30, 2008
―The Stakes of Narrative in the Poetries of David Antin, Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian: New Forms, New
Constraints,‖ by Hélène Aji, in Revue Française d‘Études Américaines, 2005
―‗Systematic rule–governed violations of convention‘: Ron Silliman‘s Poetic Procedures,‖ by William
Watkin, forthcoming
―Sentence and Reference in Ron Silliman,‖ by Manuel Brito, unpublished
―Naming the Unnameable: giving [gap] voice in the face of New [ ] sentence,‖ by Jeroenn Nieuwland, on
his weblog Transversalinflections, February, 2009
―American poet will bring the A to Z of modernism to the festival,‖ by Katie Popperwell, Manchester
Evening News: CityLife, May 1, 2009, p. 18
Untitled review of The Age of Huts (Compleat), by Rob Schlegel. Boston Review, July/August, 2009
―Alcheringa, ‗The Dwelling Place‘ and Structuralist Tendencies,‖ by Danny Snelson, Mimeo Mimeo, No. 3,
Brooklyn, NY, Autumn, 2009
―As It Stands: Innovation, the Post-Avant, and Current Publishing Practices,‖ by Amy De‘Ath on her blog,
Amy De‘Ath, November, 2009
―Garfield by Ron Silliman: An Analysis,‖ by Rudy Burkhardt, at Princemyshkins.com, no date specified.
―Ron Silliman: The Ethnicization of the Avant-Garde,‖ in Race and the Avant-Garde, by Timothy Yu,
Stanford University Press, 2009, pp. 38–72
Untitled Review of The Alphabet, by Tom Bourguignon, Pleiades Vol. 29 No. 2, 2009
Untitled review of The Alphabet, by Bill Mohr, in Or: A Literary Tabloid, Seismicity Editions, October, 2009
―Poetry as Reality. Over The Alphabet,‖ (in Dutch) by Samuel Vriezen, in Rekto:Verso 28, Nov/Dec, 2009
―The Residual Work: Tjanting and the Poetics of Experience,‖ by Andy Gricevich, in ―Ron Silliman
Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
―Questioning the Limits of Language: The New Sentence in Ron Silliman‘s Poetry and Poetics,‖ by
Manuel Brito, in ―Ron Silliman Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
―From Practice, To Reading,‖ by T.C. Marshall, in ―Ron Silliman Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010

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―Projective Recursion: The Structure of Ron Silliman‘s Tjanting,‖ by William Watkin, in ―Ron Silliman
Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
―What,‖ by Jordan Davis, in ―Ron Silliman Feature, Jacket 39, 2010
―‘Pay More Attention‘: Silliman‘s BART and Contemporary ‗Everyday Life Projects‘,‖ by Andrew Epstein,
―Ron Silliman Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
―No Content Left,‖ by Ian Keenan, in ―Ron Silliman Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
―The Labor of Repetition: Sillimans ‗Quips‘ and the Politics of Intertextuality,‖ by Lytle Shaw, in ―Ron
Silliman Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
―Close Readers,‖ by Dale Smith, in ―Ron Silliman Feature,‖ Jacket 39, 2010
Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry: Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian, by David W.
Huntsperger. Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2010
―Articulating a Poetics,‖ by Jacob Russell, on his weblog, The Reading Experience, August 16, 2010

DISSERTATIONS CONCERNING THE WORK OF RON SILLIMAN

Present Tenses in American Poetry, by Suzanne Marie Matson, University of Washington, 1987
For Those Who Love to be Astonished: The Prose Longpoem as Genre, by Robert Grotjohn, University
of Wisconsin, 1991
Loose Talk and Literary History: Language Poetry, New Formalism and the Construction of Taste in
Contemporary American Poetry, by William Francis Walsh, Miami University, 1994
Poetic Knowledge as Process: Postmodern Poetics, Ron Silliman‘s Language Poetry and Processional
Reading, by David Benedetti, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1995
Modern Poetic Prose: Lyricism, Narrative and the Social Implications of Generic Form, by John A. Parras,
Columbia University, 1996
Ugly Beauty: Modern Experiments Crossing Poetry and Prose, by Thomas Christopher Marshall,
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1997
The New Sentence et Paradise de Ron Silliman, de la théorie à la pratique d‘une écriture, by Natacha
Lallemand, Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1997
―Language Poetry and the New Prose Poem,‖ in The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Law of
Genre, by Michel Delville, Université de Liege, Liege, Belgium, published by the University Press of
Florida, 1998
Poetics, Politics and Totalitarianism: Ezra Pound, Charles Olson and the ―Language‖ Poets, by John
Raymond Woznicki, Lehigh University, 1998
To Make Something Happen: Activist Impulses in Contemporary American Poetry, by Nicholas Arnold
Yasinksi, Rutgers University, 1998
The Sociology of the Avant–Garde: Politics and Form in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry,
Timothy Yu, Stanford University, 2005
Parataxis and Possibility: Ron Silliman‘s Alphabet, by Carl Boon, Ohio University at Athens, 2007
Reading on the Bus: Ron Silliman‘s ―Tjanting,‖ by Fredrika Van Elburg, University of Aukland, New
Zealand, 2008

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Multimedia

A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000),
edited by Cary Nelson. The “Ron Silliman” section, compiled & edited by Cary Nelson, includes:

 “About Ron Silliman‖: excerpts from The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue interview by Tom
Beckett, and articles by Charles Bernstein and James Sherry
 “On Ketjak‖: includes re–edited excerpt from The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman,
excerpt from ―Ron Silliman‖ from Dictionary of Literary Biography by T.C. Marshall, excerpt from
Jerry Estrin‘s ―Exorcise Your Monkey‖ article from The Difficulties Ron Silliman Issue
 “On ‗Sunset Debris‘‖: excerpt from Wittgenstein‘s Ladder by Marjorie Perloff, and excerpt from
Tom Beckett‘s interview in The Difficulties
 “On The Chinese Notebook”: excerpt from ―For Ron Silliman and The Chinese Notebook ― from
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue by Allen (sic!) Davies, excerpt from Textual Politics and The
Language Poets by George Hartley
 Bibliography of books through 1996

Archived Readings & Talks

Audio
PENNSOUND, extensive collection of readings and talks dating from 1981 to the present
Factory School Library of Recorded Sounds (NOTE: Website states ―Archives ‗coming soon‘,‖ as of
3/2010)
 Poetry Reading, San Diego, 1998
 Poetry Reading with Rae Armantrout, San Diego 1998
 Poetry Reading, La Jolla, 1999
Modernisms II: 9 contemporary poets read themselves through modernism
Reading ―through‖ Williams
New Poetics Colloquium, Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985
Reading from Demo, August 22, 1985
Untitled talk on postmodernism, August 23, 1985
Pog Sound
Collaboration with pianist Marilyn Crispell at University of Arizona Poetry Center, Pima College West
Campus, Tucson, January 30, 2010
Silliman Reading, and Introduction to Reading by Charles Alexander, at University of Arizona Poetry
Center, Pima College West Campus, Tucson, January 30, 2010

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Video
From Tjanting, 1/1/78, 60 minutes, #307/256, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
From Paradise 10/6/84, 41 minutes, #598/506, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
―‗Postmodernism‘: Sign for a Struggle, Struggle for the Sign,‖ 5/21/85, 110 minutes, #716/576, Archive
for Poetry, San Francisco State University
―Poetry and the Politics of Everyday Life,‖ in The Lectures, Volume One: Ron Silliman, Bernadette Mayer,
Ron Padgett, Alice Notley, Thin Air Videos, NYC, NY
Reading from the Bowery Poetry Club on The Jim Behrle Show, 11/19/2005, 24 minutes
(Link no longer active).
Reading from The Alphabet, followed by Q&A, Birkbeck Poetics Centre, University of London, UK, May 5,
2009
Reading from Albany, part of ―Text Festival‖ in Bury, England, May 2, 2009
Poetry Is: Speaking Portraits, Vol. 1, edited by George Quasha, 2009
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, on Ron Silliman‘s The Alphabet, Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

Audio Cassettes
From Tjanting, 1/1/78, 60 minutes, #307/256, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
From Paradise 10/6/84, 41 minutes, #598/506, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
―‗Postmodernism‘: Sign for a Struggle, Struggle for the Sign,‖ 5/21/85, 110 minutes, #716/576, Archive
for Poetry, San Francisco State University

CDs
―From Oz,‖ in Live at the Ear, Vol. 1, 1994, CD, compiled and edited by Charles Bernstein, Oracular
Laboratory Recordings, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Radio & Podcasts

―Linebreak,‖ NPR interview by Charles Bernstein, with reading of Albany and a selection from Xing,
Buffalo, NY, 1996
―Live at the Writers House,‖ reading from Oz, November 8, 1997, broadcast on WXPN, Philadelphia, PA

―Jane Crown Show: Joe Milford Hosts Ron Silliman,‖ Blog Talk Radio, 1 hr., 30 min. August 16, 2008

―The Strand,‖ with Rajan Datar. BBC World Service, May 6, 2009
―Cross-Cultural Poetics,‖ interview with Leonard Schwartz, broadcast on KAOS-MM Olympia, WA, June
7, 2009
―Poetry Written With an Eraser,‖ discussion of erasure poetry & texts, Yedda Morrison‘s Darkness, and
Janet Holmes‘ The MS of My Kin, part of Poetry Foundation‘s ―Poetry Off the Shelf‖ audio series, 8
min., 12 sec., January 18, 2010

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―Iamb What Iamb,‖ Christian Wiman and Don Share discuss ―Revelator,‖ Poetry Foundation Podcast,
June, 2010

Electronic Journals
5_trope No. 6, from ―You, XLV, XLVI, XLVII‖
5_trope No. 13, anthology issue, from ―You, XLV, XLVI, XLVII‖
Black Ice, ―You, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII‖
Conjunctions, selection of works from the magazine, ®
CrossConnect, Vol.1, No. 3, February, 1996, Philadelphia, PA, ―from ‗Under‘‖
CrossConnect, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall, 1998, ―You XXIX, XXX, XXXI‖
CrossConnect, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2000, ―The Silence of the Looms,‖ from VOG
CrossConnect, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2000, ―The Nose of Kim Darby‘s Double,‖ from VOG
DC Poetry, Anthology 2001, Washington, DC, ―It Takes a Village,‖ from VOG
Electronic Poetry Review, No. 4, 2002, Cambridge, MA, ―The Desert Modernism ― and ―A Forest
For…,― (the latter published as a poem)
Electronic Poetry Review, No. 5, 2003, ―On Brier Island‖ and ―Trouble Ticket,‖ from VOG
Grist On-Line, No. 1, New York, NY, ―from ‗Non‘,‖ no pagination. [Note: journal discontinued]
Grist On-Line, No. 6, 1995, New York, NY, ―from ‗Under,‘‖ no pagination. [Note: journal discontinued]
Jacket, No. 2, January, 1998, Balmain, Australia, ―The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman.‖
Jacket, No. 6, January, 1999, Balmain, Australia, from ―You,‖ XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XL
Jacket, No. 16, March, 2002, Balmain, Australia, ―The Satellite,‖ from VOG
Jacket, No. 39, January, 2010, ―Poems from Crow‖
Logopoeia, 2002, ―Melnick‘s Pin‖
Masthead 2, No. 4, September 2001, ―Progressiveness Now‖
muse apprentice guild, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 2002, San Diego, CA, from Ketjak2
Non, No. 2, February, 1998, ―From Tjanting‖
POeP! 1, Rattapallax Press, New York, NY, ―Boptivity,‖ from VOG, pp. 121–128, distributed in Adobe
Acrobat and other e–book formats.
Poetry Daily, excerpt from ―Revelator,‖ June, 2010
Poets for Living Waters, from Ketjak, June 6, 2010
Slope, No. 5, July 2000, ―That which is merely eternal soon rots,‖ from VOG
Realpoetik, Seattle, WA & Iowa City, IA, ―Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,‖ (email publication,
September 25, 2002)
Veer, Dallas, TX, from ―You, XXXII and XXXIII‖

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Films
Money, by Henry Hills (appeared as self along with John Zorn, Sally Silvers, Diane Ward, Carmen Vigil,
Bruce Andrews, Susie Timmons, and Peter Hall), 1984

INTERVIEWS
―Interview with Ron Silliman,‖ conducted by Vicki Hudspith, The Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 72,
February, 1980, no pagination
―Interview,‖ conducted by Tom Beckett, The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1985, pp. 34–
46
―An Interview with Ron Silliman,‖ conducted by Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, Alive and Writing:
Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Il, 1987, pp. 240–
56
―Ron Silliman interviewed by Julia Blumenreich and Don Marks,‖ Paper Air, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1989, pp. 86–93
―Ron Silliman interviewed by Michael Amnasan,‖ Ottotole, No. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 207–228
―The Politics of Poetry: An Interview with Ron Silliman,― by Ron Tanner and Valerie Ross, Cream City
Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 1989, pp. 75–105
Untitled interview by Manuel Brito in A Suite of Poetic Voices: Interviews with Contemporary American
Poets, Kadle Books, Santa Brigida, Spain, 1992, pp. 145–166
Untitled interview by Charles Bernstein for NPR radio series LINEbreak, Buffalo, NY, 1996
―E-mail Interview with Ron Silliman,‖ by Thomas C. Marshall and Thomas A. Vogler, in Quarry West 34:
Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, pp. 10–44
―Q&A: American Poetry, Interview with Ron Silliman,‖ on Poetry Society of America website, 1999
―Ron Silliman Interview,‖ by Gary Sullivan, in ReadMe, No. 3, Spring, 2000
―Chicago Postmodern Poetry Interview,‖ by Ray Bianchi, on Chicago Postmodern Poetry website, June
2004
―Here Comes Everybody Interview,‖ by Lance Phillips, on Here Comes Everybody website, August 2004
―MiPoesias interview,― by Shane Allison, MiPoesias: Revista Literaria, Vol. 19, No. 3
―Ron Silliman Interview,‖ by Thomas A. Vogler, The Argotist
―Ron Silliman Interview,‖ by Amy King, MiPOradio, November, 2005
―An Interview with Ron Silliman,‖ by Mark Tursi, Double Room No. 6.
―Ten Questions: Ron Silliman,‖ by Nic Sebastian, on his weblog, Very Like a Whale, May, 2008
―12 or 20 Questions: with Ron Silliman,‖ by Rob McLennan, rob mclennan‘s blog, May 2, 2008
―Jane Crown Show: Joe Milford Hosts Ron Silliman,‖ Blog Talk Radio, August 16, 2008
―An Interview With Ron Silliman,‖ by David F. Hoenigman, Word Riot, 2008
―Grace Notes: Grace Cavalieri Interviews Ron Silliman,‖ by Grace Cavalieri, Oranges & Sardines, ed.
Didi Menendez, 2008, pp. 38–43
―A Chat with Ron Silliman,‖ by Didi Menendez, Best American Poetry, February, 2009
―On Reviewing: Ron Silliman,‖ by Sina Queyras on Lemonhound weblog, December 26, 2009

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―10 Questions on Poets & Technology,‖ interview by Nic Sebastian on his Very Like a Whale weblog,
June 15, 2010

INSTALLATIONS
The Addison Street Anthology, curated by Robert Hass, tile by David Goines, Addison Street & environs,
Berkeley, CA (a collection of sidewalk tiles commemorating Berkeley‘s poets), installed 2003, ―from
‗Ink‘‖
―POETRY HAS BEEN BURY, BURY GOOD TO ME,‖ neon installation at Text Festival 2011, upcoming in
Spring 2011, Bury, UK

SILLIMAN WEBSITES
Academy of American Poets. Includes audio recordings from What, Albany, & Quindecagon
Deep Oakland, Includes Tottel‘s 1–18
Electronic Poetry Center. Includes bibliography, Demo, ―Wild Form,‖ LINEbreak radio show
Facebook
Goodreads
Modern American Poetry
Pennsound
Pew Arts Includes materials from Pew Fellowship, ―You XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXVI,
XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXII‖
Poetry Foundation
Small Press Distribution
Tottel‘s
Twitter
Ubuweb
UC San Diego Archives
Silliman‘s Blog
Wikipedia

EDUCATION
Merritt College
1965-66; 1969
Oakland, CA
English Major

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San Francisco State University
1966-69
San Francisco, CA
Creative Writing Major

University of California, Berkeley

1970-71
Berkeley, CA
English Major

October 5, 2010

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