<?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.post1387016572424885290..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/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1166065287188628303</id><published>2008-02-08T11:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T11:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for all the people that have been intereste...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for all the people that have been interested in my project. You can take a look to my page, and collaborate sending emails to my address: onehundredyearsera1@gmail.com&lt;BR/&gt;the blog is this: 1hundredyears.blogspot.com&lt;BR/&gt;thanks!!!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/1166065287188628303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/1166065287188628303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202488200000#c1166065287188628303' title=''/><author><name>onehundredyears</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10531240926828221719</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1595188020"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 08, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1824399732885825162</id><published>2008-02-07T13:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T13:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>dude drew kalbach,small press distribution. www.sp...</title><summary type='text'>dude drew kalbach,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;small press distribution. www.spdbooks.org</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/1824399732885825162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/1824399732885825162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202410200000#c1824399732885825162' title=''/><author><name>John Sakkis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08621102858745971700</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2801/1876/1600/dusiephoto.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1144833194"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7782090738363042020</id><published>2008-02-07T13:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T13:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jordan,Don&#39;t like books?What do you prefer?Andy</title><summary type='text'>Jordan,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Don&#39;t like books?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What do you prefer?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Andy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/7782090738363042020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/7782090738363042020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202407200000#c7782090738363042020' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1620045718112286905</id><published>2008-02-07T11:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T11:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Very interesting and important discussion.  My own...</title><summary type='text'>Very interesting and important discussion.  My own estimate of the number of poets writing today is a bit higher.  I offer my estimate and comments on the subject in the following poem:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One Hundred Million Poets &lt;BR/&gt;(Originally published in Long River Run 2007)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No one left to work the fields or&lt;BR/&gt;fix a car.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One hundred million stand up comics, &lt;BR/&gt;A rather funny </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/1620045718112286905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/1620045718112286905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202403480000#c1620045718112286905' title=''/><author><name>Mark McGuire-Schwartz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07808116157770328304</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-29698318"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2947190918915027313</id><published>2008-02-07T00:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T00:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Expanding on Steven Fama&#39;s comment about the sheer...</title><summary type='text'>Expanding on Steven Fama&#39;s comment about the sheer cost of reading 200 contemporary books of poetry, another problem is simple ignorance.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Personally I&#39;d love to be reading much more contemporary poetry, but I find it difficult to find since it&#39;s spread so thin. There isn&#39;t exactly a New York Times Book&#39;s section dedicated to great new contemporary poems coming out every week. But there </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2947190918915027313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2947190918915027313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202363460000#c2947190918915027313' title=''/><author><name>Drew Kalbach</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09260943217203584988</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1389447896"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4573130629688126986</id><published>2008-02-06T23:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T23:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>couple of things i want to mention, Ron. I always ...</title><summary type='text'>couple of things i want to mention, Ron. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I always find it interesting how proud you are of not being an &quot;academic&quot;...stuff like:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Sometimes I teach it, but rather rarely – I’ve turned down the majority of offers I’ve had to teach writing at the college level, including two tenure-track positions&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when you say this you&#39;re obviously patting yourself on the back... </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/4573130629688126986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/4573130629688126986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202358660000#c4573130629688126986' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05327429647175738328</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2035658647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8813494986946974995</id><published>2008-02-06T22:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T22:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I find myself agreeing with Ron, then agreeing wit...</title><summary type='text'>I find myself agreeing with Ron, then agreeing with Curtis. Except for the comments about Rumi: the people who will continue to read Rumi will do so for the same reason they always have: the spiritual content, not the poetic form or craftmanship. So that&#39;s an apples &amp; oranges case.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m all for personal responsibility, too. But that means living with honor, in my opinion, and doesn&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/8813494986946974995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/8813494986946974995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202355000000#c8813494986946974995' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6968620834907098597</id><published>2008-02-06T21:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T21:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Quick response to Curtis.  Just to be accurate, ne...</title><summary type='text'>Quick response to Curtis.  Just to be accurate, neither the Institute nor the survey come from Poetry magazine, but from the Poetry Foundation - they&#39;re related, but not the same.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also regarding his point about the Objectivists: they were published by Poetry in 1931, evidence that the mag&#39;s history includes being interested in (and was founded to be interested in) the smaller, as well as</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/6968620834907098597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/6968620834907098597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202349720000#c6968620834907098597' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2991432758951077437</id><published>2008-02-06T19:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T19:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This discussion is so Bourdieu!</title><summary type='text'>This discussion is so Bourdieu!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2991432758951077437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2991432758951077437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202342520000#c2991432758951077437' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2999479843248108700</id><published>2008-02-06T19:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T19:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Those of us who don&#39;t apply to a masters program a...</title><summary type='text'>Those of us who don&#39;t apply to a masters program are free to read one poetry book a year. And write three or four. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Personally, I&#39;m a fan of big fat anthologies that take me 6 mos to 3 years to complete.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2999479843248108700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2999479843248108700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202342400000#c2999479843248108700' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Ingersoll</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-38984541"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3533449271141487962</id><published>2008-02-06T18:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T18:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Man, I didn&#39;t get anything.  I&#39;m going to assu...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Man, I didn&#39;t get anything.  I&#39;m going to assume my questionnaire must have gotten lost in the mail, otherwise I&#39;d be incensed!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Best,&lt;BR/&gt;Levari</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/3533449271141487962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/3533449271141487962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202342160000#c3533449271141487962' title=''/><author><name>Levari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03797267895979862964</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.glennmcdonald.com/images/Marian%20McPartland%20%20-%20Jazz%20portrait,%20A%20Great%20Day%20in%20Harlem%20-%201958.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5515118626536954214</id><published>2008-02-06T18:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T18:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I just have to say Curtis, this is pretty cool&quot;mer...</title><summary type='text'>I just have to say Curtis, this is pretty cool&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;meritritious craftsmanship&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;combining meretricious and meritorious.. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;you get a star for the day!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;best&lt;BR/&gt;lanny</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/5515118626536954214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/5515118626536954214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202340900000#c5515118626536954214' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5226939337744172172</id><published>2008-02-06T17:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T17:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Your revealing these questions isgiving me the urg...</title><summary type='text'>Your revealing these questions is&lt;BR/&gt;giving me the urge to answer them&lt;BR/&gt;in one of my 2 virtual spaces&lt;BR/&gt;even if no one ever reads my&lt;BR/&gt;answers.  &lt;BR/&gt;-&lt;BR/&gt;Hope the source of the questions&lt;BR/&gt;would not care.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/5226939337744172172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/5226939337744172172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202336820000#c5226939337744172172' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-333332749833351470</id><published>2008-02-06T17:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T17:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I can also argue the other side of this thing -- a...</title><summary type='text'>I can also argue the other side of this thing -- and maybe sort of believe that it&#39;s the better point of view. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Specifically, the more a poet knows of contemporary poetry and the classics, the less singular and divine her/his own work will be.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Cf. Dubuffet on Outsider Art, Simon Rodia, Martim Ramirez, Judith Scott, etc.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hard to think of poet-outsiders as &quot;pure&quot; of an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/333332749833351470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/333332749833351470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202336460000#c333332749833351470' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3515809569022901480</id><published>2008-02-06T15:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T15:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One other thing -- when you call for deeper readin...</title><summary type='text'>One other thing -- when you call for deeper reading by poets of contemporary poetry are you assuming that these poets also read or have read the poetry of the past?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hope Chaucer, Milton, W.S.,  Hopkins, Rimbaud, Tu Fu, Giacomo Lentini, etc etc etc are included in your view of what a poet ought to know.  And I&#39;m not sure that non-English language poetry is taught much as part of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/3515809569022901480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/3515809569022901480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202330580000#c3515809569022901480' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6722183642167409858</id><published>2008-02-06T15:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T15:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As a platform for poetry, the book is overrated. B...</title><summary type='text'>As a platform for poetry, the book is overrated. But it does seem to be the price of entry for being (cough) taken seriously.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/6722183642167409858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/6722183642167409858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202330220000#c6722183642167409858' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3649931651703736923</id><published>2008-02-06T14:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T14:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I dig your call for poets to be more widely r...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I dig your call for poets to be more widely read.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t dig -- or even get -- why you focus that call only on poets, and then only on those applying or admitted to graduate programs. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Readers of poets also need to be more widely read.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And there are plenty of poets who don&#39;t apply to or attend graduate programs.  I might suggest that those who don&#39;t are better </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/3649931651703736923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/3649931651703736923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202327340000#c3649931651703736923' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2695788901505704418</id><published>2008-02-06T14:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T14:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One ought not to overlook the oncoming siege of Lu...</title><summary type='text'>One ought not to overlook the oncoming siege of Lulu self-publishing ventures which, while not free, are generally sold at cost. I can think immediately of books by Brian Kim Stefans, Tan Lin, and Lawrence Giffin that I&#39;ve purchased on Lulu and, whatever the uproar over POD &#39;quality&#39;, the books are excellent samples of writing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2695788901505704418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2695788901505704418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202326200000#c2695788901505704418' title=''/><author><name>Lil Norton</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09801525029579042507</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-863703621"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5123160975433684598</id><published>2008-02-06T14:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T14:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I find Ron&#39;s numbers at the end of this post prett...</title><summary type='text'>I find Ron&#39;s numbers at the end of this post pretty fascinating when I think of the education bureaucracy that would have to be involved in them. We will have the student count books, and list them, and have them say a little about each. It sounds perilously close to the standardized testing that is already taking over American education, because it falls rather neatly into the notion that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/5123160975433684598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/5123160975433684598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202325780000#c5123160975433684598' title=''/><author><name>mark wallace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.avecbooks.org/images/markwallace.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8078479977272032910</id><published>2008-02-06T13:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T13:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Our teacher sent this out for us to read.  I am no...</title><summary type='text'>Our teacher sent this out for us to read.  I am not sure I could name 100 published books of poems.&lt;BR/&gt;I do read alot and write poems.  I enjoy the reading and consuming of information.  I may remember the poem and not the book.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/8078479977272032910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/8078479977272032910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202324160000#c8078479977272032910' title=''/><author><name>mbutterfly</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10610948916830403703</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-14719374"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-736123215566784440</id><published>2008-02-06T13:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T13:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is a terrific post, Ron and I could write a f...</title><summary type='text'>This is a terrific post, Ron and I could write a few thousand words in response. I&#39;ll limit myself here, the main reason why some poetry doesn&#39;t sell is that so few attempt to sell it. The market is huge, highly differentiated and fragmented. Most publishers try to address poets, who by and large don&#39;t buy poetry, some may target the AWP or MLA and may suffer similar neglect, very few try to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/736123215566784440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/736123215566784440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202322540000#c736123215566784440' title=''/><author><name>Chris Hamilton-Emery</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01928551937889405501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='18' src='http://www.saltpublishing.com/assets/generic/ChrisEmery_300.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-540078060"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-696119716239289801</id><published>2008-02-06T12:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T12:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yep, more or less.How much of &quot;publication anxiety...</title><summary type='text'>Yep, more or less.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How much of &quot;publication anxiety&quot; is the result of one&#39;s (my) actual desires, and how much merely the result of a social model felt as a pressure (&quot;what I &lt;I&gt;should&lt;/I&gt; be doing is getting published by UC Press--anything short of that is a failure&quot;)?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In any case, the &quot;potlach&quot; is a lot more &lt;I&gt;fun&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s a drastic difference between your two </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/696119716239289801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/696119716239289801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202319240000#c696119716239289801' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2666118362197282459</id><published>2008-02-06T12:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T12:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello... I&#39;m looking for thisng like this. art, po...</title><summary type='text'>Hello... I&#39;m looking for thisng like this. art, poetry,... and everything.&lt;BR/&gt;   If you are interested in something... here I am, ok?&lt;BR/&gt;1hundredyears.blogspot.com&lt;BR/&gt;you can send me things in the language that you want. There is no limits. Thanks for yout time spent reading my words.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2666118362197282459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/2666118362197282459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202317740000#c2666118362197282459' title=''/><author><name>onehundredyears</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10531240926828221719</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1595188020"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8706098103778805401</id><published>2008-02-06T11:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T11:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Or maybe we can put away the notion that poets &quot;ou...</title><summary type='text'>Or maybe we can put away the notion that poets &quot;ought&quot; to do anything at all; maybe, given the situation you describe, we can, for once and in good conscience, retire that Kantian category.  In other words, maybe it is a goo time to release writing (or some kinds of it, at least) from its connection with notions of social progress defined by the invention or re-invention of wheels and so forth.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/8706098103778805401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/8706098103778805401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202316780000#c8706098103778805401' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1130137274"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4639922814432779826</id><published>2008-02-06T11:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T11:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>a great summary here.  As a poet often fraught wit...</title><summary type='text'>a great summary here.  As a poet often fraught with the dilemma &quot;potlatch&quot; vs. &quot;profit&quot;, having just been sponsored by another press to attend the AWP (putting my place/press somewhat under the radar), I celebrate the new dispersion of the literary &quot;centers&quot;.  I gave or traded many more books than I sold at the convention.  Poetry in the U.S. IS thriving, even as large foundations, publishing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/4639922814432779826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1387016572424885290/comments/default/4639922814432779826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html?showComment=1202316300000#c4639922814432779826' title=''/><author><name>Allen Sharpe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09943791167663878388</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/2008/02/poetry-foundation-has-sent-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1387016572424885290' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1387016572424885290' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1917364860"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2008"/></entry></feed>