Poetry blogger Ron Silliman hinted in a recent post that he could end his popular blog. On Tuesday, he took a break from the popular site, leaving his future plans uncertain.
Here’s more from Silliman: “I’ve been maintaining the blog for more than eight years and as I think about all the changes I want to be making over the rest of this year, most of which are predicated around my desire to have more time to write, it makes me realize that what was once the newest thing on the block has by now become normative, even predictable. Blogs continue to have their uses, but in web time nothing stands still as a form for ten years. For example, having by now arrived at more than 1,300 followers on Twitter, might it not make just as much sense to forego the massive link dumps here for individual posts there? I have some questions about the efficacy of Twitter, but I have them about this format as well.”
He would leave behind a huge hole in the poetry world, as Poetry Foundation explained: “no other blog has come close to such a prominent position in contemporary poetry.”