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Ron Silliman's fame and notoriety have grown considerably during the past three years, due in large part to his popular and controversial Weblog : Silliman's Blog . Debuting on August 22, 2002 to little fanfare and without expectations of an audience, it is now (arguably) the most influential English-language blog on the web that is devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics. It surpassed its 500,000 visitor in October 2005. LIFE In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College , San Francisco State University and the University Of California At Berkeley ( UC Berkeley ), but left without attaining a degree. He has subsequently taught in the Graduate Writing Program at San Francisco State University, at the University Of California At San Diego , at New College Of California and, in shorter stints, at Naropa University and Brown University . Silliman has worked as a Political Organizer , a Lobbyist , an Ethnographer , a newspaper editor, a director of development, and as the executive editor of the Socialist Review . While in San Francisco, he served on numerous community boards including the 1980 Census Oversight Committee, the Arson Task Force of the San Francisco Fire Department, and the State Department of Health's Task Force on Health Conditions in Locale Detention Facilities. After living in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 40 years, Silliman moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1995 where he resides with his wife Krishna and two sons, Colin and Jesse. Silliman works as a Market Analyst in the computer industry. Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment For The Arts & a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. Silliman is one of the poets memorialized in Berkeley's Addison Anthology , a walk containing plaques recognizing poets and authors in his home town. LANGUAGE POETRY Silliman edited a newsletter, ''Tottels'' (1970-78), that was one of the early venues for Language Poetry . In 1976 & '77, he co-curated a reading series with Tom Mandel at the ''Grand Piano'', a coffee house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury , continuing a series originally founded by Barrett Watten . This series was followed by one at the Tassajara Bakery , co-curated with Bob Perelman , and a series combining poets with performance artists at The Farm, co-curated with Jill Scott. In 1986, Silliman's anthology of language writing, ''In the American Tree'', was published by the National Poetry Foundation . WORKS
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