<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113499370446524805..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113564037067472538</id><published>2005-12-26T18:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T18:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:thanks for mentioning our little town of Chica...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thanks for mentioning our little town of Chicago. really. sometimes I think that the only poetry that gets mentioned is that which is written with the 5 boroughs of New York. I think that in many ways the midwest has some of the best and most innovative writing that is being written by people who are more than professional poets most of us have jobs outside academia. I think however</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113564037067472538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113564037067472538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135640340000#c113564037067472538' title=''/><author><name>Ray</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15615084452699116237</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-439989596"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113536964322294666</id><published>2005-12-23T15:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T15:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I should get back in the darkroom, except they&#39;ve ...</title><summary type='text'>I should get back in the darkroom, except they&#39;ve gone and changed the technology, and my enlargers and developing tanks and drying racks are all part of an extinct process.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Change.  What a drag!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113536964322294666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113536964322294666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135369620000#c113536964322294666' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113534895600553304</id><published>2005-12-23T09:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T09:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&#39;t think you were attacking me, it just seem...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&#39;t think you were attacking me, it just seemed you were mulling over what your new form of entertainment would be.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113534895600553304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113534895600553304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135348920000#c113534895600553304' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113534279219107602</id><published>2005-12-23T07:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T07:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:  At some level, you&#39;re misconstruing me.  One...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:  At some level, you&#39;re misconstruing me.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One does feel some responsibility to be consistent, as an ideal, but that doesn&#39;t require one to appear infallible, which I&#39;m certainly not and never have been.  Biography is a series of tortuous turns and reinventions, even for those whose lives are outwardly quotidian.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why do you think I&#39;m attacking you---???</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113534279219107602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113534279219107602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135342740000#c113534279219107602' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113529570839952571</id><published>2005-12-22T18:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T18:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,Attacking me may seem fashionable, but it’s...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Attacking me may seem fashionable, but it’s sooo East Coast.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I come to praise not bury...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“Contradict yourself.  In order to live, you must remain broken up.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;                                                    -Wyndham Lewis, The Code of the Herdsman</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113529570839952571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113529570839952571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135295700000#c113529570839952571' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113526967343782251</id><published>2005-12-22T11:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T11:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:If I knew what you were implying here--&quot;I just...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If I knew what you were implying here--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I just thought that by contradicting myself I could be more like Curtis.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I might be in a position to feel dissed or honored.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do I take your name in vain?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113526967343782251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113526967343782251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135269660000#c113526967343782251' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113518527432057098</id><published>2005-12-21T12:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-21T12:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian-Just to clarify, I wasn&#39;t dishing any &quot;age cra...</title><summary type='text'>Ian-&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just to clarify, I wasn&#39;t dishing any &quot;age crap&quot;. I was just arguing against the deification of the established while ignoring the community around you. I threw the &quot;haha&quot; into the comment because it was a joke. I have nothing against older poets. I hope to be one someday. Plus Bob &amp; Ron aren&#39;t really that old...unless I&#39;m not really that young. Whatever. We&#39;ll all be dead soon.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113518527432057098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113518527432057098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135185240000#c113518527432057098' title=''/><author><name>Frank Sherlock</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16843414434122249582</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1916983016"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113514228533912144</id><published>2005-12-21T00:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-21T00:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe, it says on your About the Author page: “Joe s...</title><summary type='text'>Joe, it says on your About the Author page: “Joe stays in daily contact with his childhood friends from Coatesville, PA, founded a literacy drive there, is Honorary Captain of the Boy Scouts, and is an alternate on a monthly bowling club.”</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113514228533912144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113514228533912144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135142280000#c113514228533912144' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113513619587451644</id><published>2005-12-20T22:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T22:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey guys, I was going to take a break from checkin...</title><summary type='text'>Hey guys, I was going to take a break from checking back here but Popular Mechanics got boring.&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;You guys should have gone first on this topic and I wouldn’t have said anything.  I was only writing a personal recollection.  I guess what I meant was that for me langpo challenges a lot of the assumptions I built up when I was genre-hopping and reconnects me with an earlier phase; ‘nuf </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113513619587451644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113513619587451644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135136160000#c113513619587451644' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113512360873722544</id><published>2005-12-20T19:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T19:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CA Conrad&#39;s tribute to Rachel Blau du Plessis was ...</title><summary type='text'>CA Conrad&#39;s tribute to Rachel Blau du Plessis was genuinely inspiring.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There are very few teachers like that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I had one in Larry Fagin.  There were many other teachers at Naropa who were more famous as poets but all the students crowded into Fagin&#39;s classes because he was a great teacher.  It must be even more rare than being a great poet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Corso was an amazing spectacle</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113512360873722544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113512360873722544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135123560000#c113512360873722544' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113511542130145767</id><published>2005-12-20T16:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T16:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How&#39;s the scene in Coatesville?</title><summary type='text'>How&#39;s the scene in Coatesville?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113511542130145767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113511542130145767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135115400000#c113511542130145767' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113511237544957403</id><published>2005-12-20T15:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T15:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Indeed, recognizing that the modernist military m...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Indeed, recognizing that the modernist military metaphor behind avant-gardism is not the same as moving writing forward through formal innovation &amp; that community has been as important a part of the avant tradition since Baudelaire arrived in Paris is precisely the shift in stance by which avant becomes post-.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That really lends some clarity to the term for me. Thanks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113511237544957403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113511237544957403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135112340000#c113511237544957403' title=''/><author><name>dc</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113510665730888084</id><published>2005-12-20T14:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T14:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>First, this is for yesterday&#39;s comments by Ian Kee...</title><summary type='text'>First, this is for yesterday&#39;s comments by Ian Keenan about Philly.  Ian, if you missed what Frank Sherlock had to say to you, read it!  Your ignorance of this city&#39;s poets, their poems, how, when and what, infuriates me.  It infuriates me of course not because you are ignorant of the history, but that you act as if you know the history, when it&#39;s clear you do not.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For instance, Rachel </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113510665730888084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113510665730888084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135106640000#c113510665730888084' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113509406468286242</id><published>2005-12-20T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh thank you Great Fathers for &quot;throwing bags of w...</title><summary type='text'>Oh thank you Great Fathers for &quot;throwing bags of wheat at the refugees&quot;!!! Where would Philadelphia be without your charity? Do They Know It&#39;s Christmastime At All? Sing along with me now...Feed The World, blah blah blah blah blah blah.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Contrary to the Ian Keenan version of poetry in Philadelphia, the reason this city is &quot;well-stocked suddenly&quot; (it was hard for me to even type that)is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113509406468286242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113509406468286242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135094040000#c113509406468286242' title=''/><author><name>Frank Sherlock</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16843414434122249582</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1916983016"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113507863819425288</id><published>2005-12-20T06:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T06:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>this is so fascinatingregardssteveintaipei</title><summary type='text'>this is so fascinating&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;regards&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;steveintaipei</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113507863819425288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113507863819425288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135078620000#c113507863819425288' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113503285307249786</id><published>2005-12-19T17:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T17:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Concerning Philly, I remember when Bob Perelman fi...</title><summary type='text'>Concerning Philly, I remember when Bob Perelman first arrived, his readings were sort of like a UN truck had come in and started throwing bags of wheat at the refugees.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There was a  Creeley and Ginsberg event at Penn before that and the Q &amp; A was pretty typical. People elbowed each other to get to the microphone with the efficiency of Clausewitz and became Dan Quayle when it came time to</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113503285307249786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113503285307249786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135032840000#c113503285307249786' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113503164080321594</id><published>2005-12-19T17:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T17:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Sandburg/Covici/Rexroth scene in pre-War Chica...</title><summary type='text'>The Sandburg/Covici/Rexroth scene in pre-War Chicago was much more &quot;cohesive&quot; than any later incarnations.  It was based on a self-conscious &quot;regionalism&quot; emphasizing the Midwest landscape, Scandanavian and German roots etc., and a certain &quot;rawness&quot; of affect and intention.  Attempting to build a localism based on compositional vagaries feels very European, like Vienna or Copenhagen or Prague.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113503164080321594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113503164080321594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135031640000#c113503164080321594' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113502289275578270</id><published>2005-12-19T15:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T15:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Do we have to go through this SoQ &quot;debate&quot; again? ...</title><summary type='text'>Do we have to go through this SoQ &quot;debate&quot; again? Please tell me no.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One thing I&#39;ve found about journals working through the &quot;SoQ&quot;: they are generally much snobbier, even the small journals and even the web journals. When I review something, I usually send the editor of the journal an e-mail to let him or her know their writer&#39;s work is featured. I very often get a friendly e-mail in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113502289275578270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113502289275578270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135022880000#c113502289275578270' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113501230756766180</id><published>2005-12-19T12:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T12:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I wasn&#39;t whispering in your ear.  Poetry communiti...</title><summary type='text'>I wasn&#39;t whispering in your ear.  Poetry communities -- damn fine.  Everything good that has happened to me in re poesy (aside from maybe writing a halfway decent poem and I stress the &quot;maybe&quot;) has come from friends and fellow poets. Your own experience (which you helped create)enviable.  Who wouldn&#39;t have wanted to be where you were?  And the example of Landis Everson who gave up writing when </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113501230756766180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113501230756766180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135012260000#c113501230756766180' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113500315936345628</id><published>2005-12-19T09:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T09:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>p.s. I just heard from Dwilla ]&amp;^^, a soon-to-be-f...</title><summary type='text'>p.s. I just heard from Dwilla ]&amp;^^, a soon-to-be-familiar name in Quietudinity (has resided at QM for several years now).  She called me at work (whispering with a barely-audible rustling sibillance) to say that it&#39;s &quot;propagate&quot;, not propogate.  Thanks, Dwilla - hope to &quot;hear&quot; some of your poetry soon!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113500315936345628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113500315936345628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135003140000#c113500315936345628' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113500205288209498</id><published>2005-12-19T09:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-19T09:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I guess you haven&#39;t heard yet of Quietude Mou...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I guess you haven&#39;t heard yet of Quietude Mountain.  This is a small but very active Quietude community located on a remote precipice near Omaha, NE.  There you&#39;ll discover a number of fine SOCks reading one another&#39;s feet &amp; encouraging the development of mainstream channels in Poetry World, through prayer, meditation, and general quietude.  They eat one meal a day, in silence; they recite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113500205288209498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113499370446524805/comments/default/113500205288209498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html?showComment=1135002000000#c113500205288209498' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/very-last-item-in-new-chicago-review.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113499370446524805' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113499370446524805' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2005"/></entry></feed>