He holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and is the author of The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic (Ashgate, 2010) and editor of New York School Collaborations: The Color of Vowels (Palgrave/ MacMillan, 2013). He is also the author of a prize-winning collection of ekphrastic poems, Believing the Line: The Jack Siegel Poems (Eric Hoffer Book Award, 2013). At the MLC Research Centre, Dr. Silverberg is involved in working on both critical and creative projects related to poetic collaborations. He welcomes conversations and inquiries.