Last Monday, May 11, I got to KGB early because Stephen Paul Miller, Mary Jo Bang, and Ron Silliman were reading and I knew it was going to be packed. I wanted to get a table with a good seat so I could record. You will find the fruits of my wonderful labor in the Vimeo below. Enjoy.
KGB: Miller, Bang & Silliman
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Stephen Paul Miller
Miller’s recent Beautiful Snacks is published by Marsh Hawk Press. You can check him out here:
Stephen Paul Miller: “The Poetry Mailing List: Poetry Beyond Borders”
for Felix D’Arienzo and Gerri Czachowski “1976” After his reading I asked Peter Schjeldahl for a poem for our one-page magazine folded in an envelope. “I haven’t written a poem in two years. You don’t know?” Later that night Peter found himself talking to “Verse” as if thinking over my plan to bypass everything but poetry through new Xerox technology.
Mary Jo Bang
Bang’s recent book, A Doll for Throwing, was published by GrayWolf Press: You can check it out here:
A Doll for Throwing
A Doll for Throwing takes its title from Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher’s Wurfpuppe, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to “throw” her voice into a doll that rests on the knee.
Mary Jo Bang – Wikipedia
Bang grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London with a Bachelor’s in Photography, and from Columbia University, with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry).
Ron Silliman
Silliman’s The Alphabet is published by the University of Alabama Press. You can check it out here:
The Alphabet
A remarkable and notorious literary achievementThe Alphabet-decades in the making, continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appea…
Ron Silliman – Wikipedia
Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet.
