<?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.post116177410051486590..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/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.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>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116233718428465965</id><published>2006-10-31T18:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T18:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,&quot;In the end, all public arts funding is an ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;In the end, all public arts funding is an (aesthetic) wash. Private funding is okay, if it has a vision.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I see what you&#39;re saying, but there&#39;s something wrong with this logic, I think. In either case, you have to depend on somebody&#39;s tastes and decisions, a somebody (or institution) with the money. Public arts funding could &quot;have a vision&quot; as well, couldn&#39;t it? The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116233718428465965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116233718428465965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1162337160000#c116233718428465965' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116231034247517531</id><published>2006-10-31T10:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T10:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven:  I think your post lays out the issues, bu...</title><summary type='text'>Steven:  I think your post lays out the issues, but since we don&#39;t know the truth it&#39;s all just speculation--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The real issue is the disproportionate distribution of capital towards the wrong ends.  Poetry Magazine has no useful way to spend this money.  They will hire lawyers, accountants, security specialists, advertising executives, and a host of secretaries and people-Fridays--all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116231034247517531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116231034247517531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1162310340000#c116231034247517531' 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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116198265556790930</id><published>2006-10-27T16:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T16:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>(This doesn&#39;t seem to have gotten through when I s...</title><summary type='text'>(This doesn&#39;t seem to have gotten through when I sent it a few hours ago, so let me reconstruct.  Of course just zap it, Ron, with my  apologies, if the earlier version was just waiting approval).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Steve Evans has worthwhile things to say about the poetic/political intervention of Kooser/Gioia/Barr et al (though &quot;intervention&quot;, like &quot;empowerment&quot;, is the sort of current jargon I had asked</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116198265556790930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116198265556790930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161982620000#c116198265556790930' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116198036002748041</id><published>2006-10-27T16:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T16:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Goebbels was a fairly pure socialist.  If you read...</title><summary type='text'>Goebbels was a fairly pure socialist.  If you read his novel Michael (I admit I skipped around in it) it&#39;s pure social realism.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I&#39;d agree that the internet is a gnostic device leading one to imagine that one is in conversation with others when in fact only real daily interaction with others is real, and everything else is a simulacrum.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s appealing -- like a pinball </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116198036002748041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116198036002748041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161980340000#c116198036002748041' 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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116196545468083981</id><published>2006-10-27T12:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T12:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Paul, I don&#39;t share your optimism with respect to ...</title><summary type='text'>Paul, I don&#39;t share your optimism with respect to the progress of the internet in society.  As much as anything, it might actually dilute the expression of direct response to reality, continuing the diversion from rational apprehension which began with radio and television (beginning in the 1930&#39;s with the rise of Fascism in Europe, etc.).  Rove is clearly the inheritor of the Goebbels tradition.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116196545468083981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116196545468083981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161965400000#c116196545468083981' 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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116192910968726203</id><published>2006-10-27T02:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T02:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Regarding Free Market Verse, I saw an earlier vers...</title><summary type='text'>Regarding Free Market Verse, I saw an earlier version of it mentioned on the SUNY Buffalo Poetics list and cranked out a response:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Changing a Culture &lt;BR/&gt;(A Look at Cultural Modernism and Free Market Verse)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In his essay Free Market Verse, Steve Evans looks at the ramifications of:  “…the largest single donation ever made to an institution devoted to poetry” (Parisi 1). That </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116192910968726203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116192910968726203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161929100000#c116192910968726203' title=''/><author><name>peN</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08068813038783953187</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-499294682"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116189355956569458</id><published>2006-10-26T16:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T16:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ha ha and the fire of Millay.  I cannot resist it ...</title><summary type='text'>Ha ha and the fire of Millay.  I cannot resist it truly.  From my mother&#39;s high school autograph book (one of the things I never leave a war zone without):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dearest Lois,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Don&#39;t be what you isn&#39;t&lt;BR/&gt;Just be what you is&lt;BR/&gt;Cause if you is what you isn&#39;t&lt;BR/&gt;You isn&#39;t what you is.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And no fooling,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lilly Hodler&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;...and there are several more from 1937.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116189355956569458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116189355956569458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161893520000#c116189355956569458' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116189162192969143</id><published>2006-10-26T15:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T15:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm.  I have to take my homeless brother to the DE...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm.  I have to take my homeless brother to the DES in a few minutes so I&#39;ll be brief:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This IS a poem:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; A speaker observes an alienated couple as they dourly squirt Windex at each other’s faces from opposite sides of a pane they’re cleaning. A speaker assists minimally in the burial of an acquaintance. A speaker recalls buying red shoes for a woman who hasn’t been seen since. A </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116189162192969143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116189162192969143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161891600000#c116189162192969143' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116188917828297729</id><published>2006-10-26T14:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T14:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I liked some of the links.  I couldn&#39;t understand ...</title><summary type='text'>I liked some of the links.  I couldn&#39;t understand why Giovanni chose to use that particular rhetoric.  Rhetoric ought to be chosen skillfully so as to persuade.  This guttermouth language would more likely persuade people to vote for the other candidate.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In terms of the 885 artists: I read through the list and could call up the music for most of them.  But I still don&#39;t know why people </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116188917828297729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116188917828297729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161889140000#c116188917828297729' 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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116188385169868066</id><published>2006-10-26T13:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T13:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The list is pretty gross. Three or four jazz music...</title><summary type='text'>The list is pretty gross. Three or four jazz musicians, and Beethoven below DiFranco... below &lt;I&gt;Coldplay?&lt;/I&gt;... but the ratings are drawn from whoever goes to their site, so... &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of more interest is the response of &quot;Mary Pierce Brosmer, poet and founder of Women Writing for (a) Change&quot; to Giovanni, which is also almost nausea-inducing in its archetypal workshopiness; it&#39;s a real shame </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116188385169868066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116188385169868066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161883800000#c116188385169868066' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116187955774316867</id><published>2006-10-26T12:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T12:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>what nikki giovanni didmore should dotell the trut...</title><summary type='text'>what nikki giovanni did&lt;BR/&gt;more should do&lt;BR/&gt;tell the truth to the&lt;BR/&gt;nice americans&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;poets and big money&lt;BR/&gt;is not strange&lt;BR/&gt;but one must wonder then&lt;BR/&gt;about substance&lt;BR/&gt;wallace stevens had money&lt;BR/&gt;but he detested public adulation&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;gone are the days&lt;BR/&gt;when guys and girls&lt;BR/&gt;would trudge a mountain mile&lt;BR/&gt;for an unheard utterance&lt;BR/&gt;all the human sciences are&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116187955774316867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116187955774316867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161879540000#c116187955774316867' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116187623301245802</id><published>2006-10-26T11:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T11:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like that Mozart is 87.  Not that he&#39;s the great...</title><summary type='text'>I like that Mozart is 87.  Not that he&#39;s the greatest, but that GENESIS is higher than Mozart on that list.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Throwing It All Away&quot; indeed.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116187623301245802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116187623301245802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161876180000#c116187623301245802' title=''/><author><name>Amish Trivedi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11839976680249253602</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832955061"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116187095077340624</id><published>2006-10-26T09:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-26T09:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What a joke. 885 greatest? People like Mingus behi...</title><summary type='text'>What a joke. 885 greatest? People like Mingus behind Styx and Kansas... So few women. Aretha behind Duran Duran, the travesties are far too many to mention. Scary.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116187095077340624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116187095077340624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161870900000#c116187095077340624' title=''/><author><name>joseph torra</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17238560007193781306</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512183702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116179842342256172</id><published>2006-10-25T13:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-25T13:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:Thanks for the link to Steve Evans&#39;s piece on ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for the link to Steve Evans&#39;s piece on &quot;Free (Market) Verse&quot;.  Brilliant analysis.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The construction of a coup d&#39;etat organized by Barr, Gioia and Kooser &amp; Co., gives one pause.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The relevant irony is the disconnect between the evident failure of the &quot;new formalism&quot; to create &quot;masterpieces&quot; and the dumbed-down &quot;populist&quot; audience imagined by these neo-Con </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116179842342256172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116179842342256172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161798420000#c116179842342256172' 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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116178092463958894</id><published>2006-10-25T08:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-25T08:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>From the NY Times article on Bill Bright: &quot;Mr. Bri...</title><summary type='text'>From the NY Times article on Bill Bright: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Mr. Bright’s approach to the study of language was one seldom seen nowadays. With the ascendance of Noam Chomsky in the late 1950’s, linguistics shifted its focus from documenting language as an artifact of human culture to analyzing it as a window onto human cognition.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But to Mr. Bright, language was inseparable from its cultural </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116178092463958894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116177410051486590/comments/default/116178092463958894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html?showComment=1161780900000#c116178092463958894' title=''/><author><name>Rocco DiStreitlmahn</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05401952796335386301</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/2006/10/what-nikki-giovanni-said-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116177410051486590' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116177410051486590' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-522616634"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2006"/></entry></feed>