[New-Poetry] Not teaching

[Ron Silliman]

I'm a market analyst in the computer industry. I have taught, but only in visiting lectureship type situations, and worked as a director development for a grad school for a few years. But I've also been an editor, a lobbyist, and a community organizer (which is like being a small town mayor, except you actually do stuff, and have a much better chance of getting killed for it) -- I helped to save over 10,000 units of low-income housing in San Francisco in the late '70s, sat on an arson task force that predicted which buildings would burn and got the city focused on the issue of homelessness for the first time. But I was also assaulted five times in five years in that job. 

Ron