# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-silliman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:21:36.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-silliman"
name: "Ron Silliman"
slug: "ron-silliman"
description: "Ron Silliman 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."
tagline: "American poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Silliman_in_Speaking_Portraits.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.611376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Silliman"
    title: "Ron Silliman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Silliman"
    title: "Ron Silliman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Silliman"
    title: "Ron Silliman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "רון סילימן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronaldus_Silliman"
    title: "Ronaldus Silliman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7364387"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump