<?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.post2080149028598498766..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/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.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>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1638119073261507381</id><published>2009-02-17T23:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T23:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>it&#39;s been months since i read your drudgereport of...</title><summary type='text'>it&#39;s been months since i read your drudgereport of a poetry blog and everything&#39;s the same except faville&#39;s primping yr whole again.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/1638119073261507381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/1638119073261507381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1234931040000#c1638119073261507381' title=''/><author><name>Ridgerunner</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07253904232487904166</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1328156720"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1645148151066538258</id><published>2009-02-07T03:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-07T03:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just when you thought it couldn&#39;t get any worse......</title><summary type='text'>Just when you thought it couldn&#39;t get any worse... now  it&#39;s just a drab poem with the word SEX all over it.  I&#39;m dying of laughter!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks, Tom, I guess...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/1645148151066538258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/1645148151066538258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233995940000#c1645148151066538258' title=''/><author><name>bajo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05385584899832745056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UMqB2Gm6eTU/SPhPPcRjpjI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Yr4yo3k152w/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-972262772"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3732724158787252309</id><published>2009-02-05T19:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T19:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sex Praise Song for the Day     Each day we go abo...</title><summary type='text'>Sex Praise Song for the Day     &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Each day we go about our sex business,&lt;BR/&gt;walking past each other, catching each other&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;eyes or not, about to speak sex or speaking sex.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All about us is sex noise. All about us is&lt;BR/&gt;sex noise and sex bramble, sex thorn and sex din, each&lt;BR/&gt;one of our ancestors sex on our tongues. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Someone is stitching up a sex hem, darning&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/3732724158787252309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/3732724158787252309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233879540000#c3732724158787252309' title=''/><author><name>Tom King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B33zvHDC_m4/SUcFrpLUEeI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jrXdJmzJcfs/S220/Tom+playing+cornet+08.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1642046747"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7539922365558799588</id><published>2009-02-05T19:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T19:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Funny how Miller Williams and Elizabeth Alexander ...</title><summary type='text'>Funny how Miller Williams and Elizabeth Alexander both mention brambles in their respective inaugural poems.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/7539922365558799588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/7539922365558799588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233878460000#c7539922365558799588' title=''/><author><name>Tom King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B33zvHDC_m4/SUcFrpLUEeI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jrXdJmzJcfs/S220/Tom+playing+cornet+08.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1642046747"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8528075432784871436</id><published>2009-02-05T07:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T07:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:Thanks for putting it all in context ... very ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for putting it all in context ... very insightful post.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Don</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/8528075432784871436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/8528075432784871436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233837600000#c8528075432784871436' title=''/><author><name>Issa&#39;s Untidy Hut</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-926068283"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-386967858596855463</id><published>2009-02-05T01:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T01:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron&#39;s point about how media has changed both the r...</title><summary type='text'>Ron&#39;s point about how media has changed both the reception and the response is a valid one, and very much in line with McLuhan.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course, anyone is open to parody who makes their poems public, including all of the present company. Not all satire is the same, because it doesn&#39;t all need to be. The best satire is that which changes things, the weakest is that which is just kvetching. I&#39;m </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/386967858596855463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/386967858596855463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233814080000#c386967858596855463' 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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7952246957037364562</id><published>2009-02-04T23:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T23:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A cheer for Sulfur!  That&#39;s where I read the poem....</title><summary type='text'>A cheer for Sulfur!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s where I read the poem.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/7952246957037364562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/7952246957037364562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233808140000#c7952246957037364562' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5538496452041729050</id><published>2009-02-04T23:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T23:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;All I want to say is that at least there&#39;s some p...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;All I want to say is that at least there&#39;s some place for poetry in an event of this importance. Things could have been better, no doubt, but at least a whole nation stood quiet to listen to poetry... that&#39;s a good sign, I think... or maybe not...?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/5538496452041729050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/5538496452041729050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233807120000#c5538496452041729050' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6440181752310902519</id><published>2009-02-04T11:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T11:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Avant(Terror)Unit understand the problem of Ms...</title><summary type='text'>The Avant(Terror)Unit understand the problem of Ms. Angelou and her quisling activities. Please review our communiqué at your leisure.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gertrude Gein&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://tinyurl.com/a9lobp</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/6440181752310902519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/6440181752310902519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233765360000#c6440181752310902519' title=''/><author><name>¡ avant(terror)unit !</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14623033367498083338</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fDzFkxDVggg/SX0ko063H5I/AAAAAAAAAAY/E-c7Ge_LD7Y/S220/KaliPostcard420.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-733201943"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4905679201247490539</id><published>2009-02-04T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T11:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven:You&#39;re right.  I didn&#39;t Google.  But Google...</title><summary type='text'>Steven:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re right.  I didn&#39;t Google.  But Google&#39;s not always reliable, either.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps what I meant to say was that I suspected that &quot;most people&quot; had forgotten about it, if they ever had known originally.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thx.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4905679201247490539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4905679201247490539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233764520000#c4905679201247490539' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1555341913048804337</id><published>2009-02-04T11:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T11:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Coolidge &amp;amp; Fagin&amp;#39;s parody of Angelou was a...</title><summary type='text'>Coolidge &amp;amp; Fagin&amp;#39;s parody of Angelou was a specific kind of burlesque.  While following the manner of the original, it benefited--if we can use that sense--from an absurdity which actually was characteristic of both Coolidge&amp;#39;s and Fagin&amp;#39;s other, more purely literary efforts.  Their clunky images and fractured metaphors suggested that it wasn&amp;#39;t merely her formulaic composition </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/1555341913048804337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/1555341913048804337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233764400000#c1555341913048804337' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8610517879946097150</id><published>2009-02-04T10:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T10:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis Faville should have done a Google search be...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis Faville should have done a Google search before asserting on January 29th that &quot;no one has mentioned &lt;I&gt;On The Pumice of Morons&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On January 24th, the book was mentioned in the end-note to the post over at &lt;I&gt;the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica&lt;/I&gt;. Fagin and Coolidge&#39;s poem was also alluded to over there on December 17th. Both times in reference to the inaugural poet, or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/8610517879946097150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/8610517879946097150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233762900000#c8610517879946097150' 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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3394072821717487206</id><published>2009-02-04T10:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T10:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Clayton Eshleman notes that &quot;On the Pumice of Moro...</title><summary type='text'>Clayton Eshleman notes that &quot;On the Pumice of Morons&quot; led of &lt;I&gt;Sulfur&lt;/I&gt; #34 in 1994, &quot;which gained it probably another thousand readers.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/3394072821717487206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/3394072821717487206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233762300000#c3394072821717487206' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2793736242573310911</id><published>2009-02-04T08:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T08:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>//One of the issues confronting all mainstream med...</title><summary type='text'>//One of the issues confronting all mainstream media in 2009 is precisely an inability to control access to commentary.//&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A curious way to put it. As if &quot;mainstream&quot; media, like the Chinese Government, wanted to *control access* to commentary on some, eventually to be obscure, occasional poem. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As if.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Setting aside delusions of grandeur, the only equation this changes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/2793736242573310911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/2793736242573310911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233752880000#c2793736242573310911' title=''/><author><name>upinVermont</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11541656511322678901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qQ1aB1-kPEw/SWE939RzcvI/AAAAAAAAALo/1OdZ9GX3cZU/S220/Self-Cropped.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1130641354"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4818861976569538405</id><published>2009-02-04T07:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T07:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>All I want to say is that at least there&#39;s some pl...</title><summary type='text'>All I want to say is that &lt;I&gt;at least&lt;/I&gt; there&#39;s some place for poetry in an event of this importance. Things could have been better, no doubt, but at least a whole nation stood quiet to listen to poetry... that&#39;s a good sign, I think... or maybe not...?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4818861976569538405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4818861976569538405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233748980000#c4818861976569538405' 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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4829235682533745082</id><published>2009-02-04T05:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T05:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>When I&#39;m elected president I&#39;m going to make you m...</title><summary type='text'>When I&#39;m elected president I&#39;m going to make you my laureate and have  you read &quot;The Age of Huts&quot; cover to cover at my inaugeration.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4829235682533745082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4829235682533745082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233744960000#c4829235682533745082' 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='33' height='17' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_ox5qHYptFN4/SET-xNOlA3I/AAAAAAAAAAs/Zi4EWNCxlck/S220/PG378M24b.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4175378614814302370</id><published>2009-02-04T04:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T04:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I challenge anyone to think of a worse line than ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I challenge anyone to think of a worse line than The disenfranchised dead want to know.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You could possibly find one in the same poem:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;The children. The children.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The awfulness of that genuinely shocked me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I dare Cornelius Eady not to cringe at the sight of his own sloppy sentimentality in a quarter century, regardless how praiseworthy the notion&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4175378614814302370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/4175378614814302370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233740400000#c4175378614814302370' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8771020667472685119</id><published>2009-02-04T04:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T04:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, you linked to Kenneth Goldsmith&#39;s WFMU blg po...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;you linked to Kenneth Goldsmith&#39;s WFMU blg post for his radio show of 51 audio remxes of Alexander&#39;s &quot;tortured reading style&quot; on January 26th as &lt;BR/&gt;[url=http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/01/the-inaugural-poem-remix.html]Inaugural remix project[/url].</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/8771020667472685119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2080149028598498766/comments/default/8771020667472685119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html?showComment=1233738180000#c8771020667472685119' title=''/><author><name>Herb Levy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18361075879064632458</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/2009/02/quick-note-here-in-response-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2080149028598498766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2080149028598498766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1890310339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2009"/></entry></feed>