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Silliman sees his poetry as being part of a single poem or lifework, which he calls ''Ketjak.'' ''Ketjak'' is also the name of the first poem of ''The Age of Huts.'' If and when completed, the entire work will consist of ''The Age of Huts'' (1974-1980), ''Tjanting'' (1979-1981), ''The Alphabet'' (1979-2004), and ''Universe'' (2005-). In September 2006, Silliman indicates he's been doing " a lot of writing, esp. on a section of Universe called ''"Silence and Prose"'' ". link here~> Silliman's Blog 05Sept06 Ron Silliman's fame and notoriety have grown considerably since 2002 , 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. By August 2006, ''Silliman's Blog'' had reached 800,000 hits. By early November 2006, Silliman's Blog had welcomed its 900,000th visitor In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 link here Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002-03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)".. In early February 2007, Silliman's Blog had surpassed 1,000,000 hits. LIFE In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College , San Francisco State University and the University Of California, 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 Most recently, in June 2006, Silliman taught at the Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa in Boulder, Colorado 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 AND CRITICAL WRITING While Silliman has come to be associated with the , such as ''Poetry Northwest,'' ''TriQuarterly,'' ''Southern Review'' and ''Poetry.'' Silliman found such early acceptance to be a sign of the lack of standards or rigor characteristic of that literary tendency and began looking for alternatives. Silliman edited a newsletter, ''Tottels'' (1970-81)available on-line at the ''Eclipse'' archive, link here: ''Tottel's Magazine'' , that was one of the early venues for , 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. Silliman's mature critical writing dates to the early/mid-1970s when he was asked to discuss his thinking about the role of reference in poetry, leading to the essay "Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World," which first appeared in the journal ''Art Con.'' Soon thereafter he edited a special issue of the magazine ''Margins'' devoted to the work of poet Clark Coolidge and began to give talks and contribute essays on a regular basis thereafter. As was mentioned above, Silliman was influenced by (and subsequently has written extensively on) the "New American Poetry", referring to the poets who first appeared in Donald Allen's groundbreaking anthology '' The New American Poetry 1945-1960 ''. Today, those same (but then relatively unknown) poets included in this anthology are now recognizable or precedent figures in the current cultural landscape. As a result of his critical work since the 1970's, several of the concepts introduced by Silliman, such as The New Sentence , the School Of Quietude and Post-avant have become widely used. But also as a result of the impact of his influential weblog.In 1986, Silliman's anthology ''In the American Tree'', one of the foremost collections of American language poetry, was published by the National Poetry Foundation ''Great Anthology: In the American Tree'' article from the ''Academy of American Poets'' website. WORKS
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