I just finished reading American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology Of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John. The book is a compilation of poets and a selection of their poems that have been published over the past 10 or 20 years, illustrating the vast expanse of poetic ideologies on the current scene. [...]
I went searching for the earliest reference to the phrase “School of Quietude” on Ron Silliman’s blog. Silliman is, of course, the person who coined the phrase.
Interestingly, Silliman started his blog on August 29, 2002. The first mention of the School of Quietude was on September 2, 2002, but only as a label, or a [...]