CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: with Ron Silliman

This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Ron Silliman , one of Flow Charts favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “All the Whiskey in Heaven” by Charles Bernstein. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.

Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been “getting it,” CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.

Actively participate or simply listen and learn!

The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.

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Ron Silliman is an American poet and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written and edited over thirty (30) books and has had his poetry and criticism translated into twelve (12) languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Silliman has worked as a political organizer, lobbyist, ethnographer, newspaper editor, director of development, and executive editor of the Socialist Review (US). Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet. He has begun writing a new poem, Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator.