<?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.post2197921224909702431..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/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4851364135669357512</id><published>2009-12-27T12:00:43.606-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T12:00:43.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The first problem, of course, is the choice of com...</title><summary type='text'>The first problem, of course, is the choice of commentators.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know, for instance, exactly what Eileen Myles is going to say about the question, just as we know what Rigoberto Gonzalez will say.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s possible to channel the sentiment simply by picking the speakers.  Which is what makes it all an exercise in predictable prejudice.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the only important </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/4851364135669357512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/4851364135669357512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261933243606#c4851364135669357512' 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/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6239458828344205159</id><published>2009-12-27T10:32:25.115-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T10:32:25.115-05:00</updated><title type='text'>don&amp;#39;t neglect to explore the effects on the br...</title><summary type='text'>don&amp;#39;t neglect to explore the effects on the brain/mind of the 60-second, electrical alternating current cycle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is non-stop&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;watching the screen or using any electrical device can REALLY effect your health..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that flickering is inherent in ever electrical device  and the humm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;notice both in those flourescent light tubes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/6239458828344205159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/6239458828344205159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261927945115#c6239458828344205159' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7545423841809284218</id><published>2009-12-26T16:02:25.012-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T16:02:25.012-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Barthes would have found the web&amp;#39;s bursting of...</title><summary type='text'>Barthes would have found the web&amp;#39;s bursting of the boundaries of writing&amp;#39;s distribution networks, by its incredible circulation, thrilling. He would have seen the ways in which the new networks are entwined with the market and with consumer-capitalist ways of treating culture conditioned through and through by moneyed interests. This all has to be treated with extraordinary critical care </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/7545423841809284218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/7545423841809284218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261861345012#c7545423841809284218' 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='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4220534159750472552</id><published>2009-12-26T10:19:30.759-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T10:19:30.759-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What about the rapid process of institutional legi...</title><summary type='text'>What about the rapid process of institutional legitimation undergone by the so-called post-avant during the past ten years? In rather obvious and various ways, this has dramatically changed the landscape of U.S. poetry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The academic turn was underway already in the 90s, certainly, but that the process of recuperation has reached qualitatively new levels (think, for contrast, of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/4220534159750472552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/4220534159750472552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261840770759#c4220534159750472552' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</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/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1702343143683134968</id><published>2009-12-24T16:56:29.636-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T16:56:29.636-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In a January 2009 New York Times article, Robert Y...</title><summary type='text'>In a January 2009 New York Times article, Robert Young, Chief Executive of Lulu Enterprises, a print-on-demand based in Raleigh , N.C. said (and I quote directly:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Indeed, a majority of the company&amp;#39;s (Lulu&amp;#39;s) titles are of little interest to anybody other than the authors and their families.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We have easily published the largest collection of bad poetry in  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/1702343143683134968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/1702343143683134968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261691789636#c1702343143683134968' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7416442543537194508</id><published>2009-12-24T12:58:37.018-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T12:58:37.018-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And then again...!</title><summary type='text'>And &lt;a href=&quot;http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/congress/?hp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;then again&lt;/a&gt;...!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/7416442543537194508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/7416442543537194508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261677517018#c7416442543537194508' 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/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3815390596223810590</id><published>2009-12-24T11:23:41.596-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T11:23:41.596-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Universities... that&amp;#39;s a tricky one. On the on...</title><summary type='text'>Universities... that&amp;#39;s a tricky one. On the one hand, they represent our last vestige of a national comparative advantage. And you don&amp;#39;t have to look further than the front page of the Times any day of the week to know that the (correct) university credential is a prerequisite for, well, anything *at all* in this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, looked at in the right post-1980 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/3815390596223810590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/3815390596223810590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261671821596#c3815390596223810590' 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/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5191381587518134149</id><published>2009-12-24T10:44:35.303-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T10:44:35.303-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I share Ed&amp;#39;s suspicions of the &amp;quot;democrati...</title><summary type='text'>I share Ed&amp;#39;s suspicions of the &amp;quot;democratizing&amp;quot; impetus of online writing/publishing and decry the new type of technonarcissism it breeds (what you&amp;#39;ve called the &amp;quot;technology-based visual poetries&amp;quot;) but I can also read the writing on the wall. And I couldn&amp;#39;t be happier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Internet is here to stay; hard copies are not dying but (in Deleuzian parlance) being &amp;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/5191381587518134149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/5191381587518134149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261669475303#c5191381587518134149' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1653865463947538006</id><published>2009-12-24T10:30:08.058-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T10:30:08.058-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i have a strange relationship with online publishi...</title><summary type='text'>i have a strange relationship with online publishing. I put out an online journal and I read a few but most of my reading is still in print. I&amp;#39;m submitting equally to print and online but I know I read more print so am I just an oxymoron?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/1653865463947538006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/1653865463947538006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261668608058#c1653865463947538006' title=''/><author><name>Jessie Carty</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13181286764480973423</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_euLaLVNpeA4/STPqtabrDZI/AAAAAAAABEk/wi_BA40ErII/S220/profile.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-97078717"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3022088843944905039</id><published>2009-12-24T10:13:03.548-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T10:13:03.548-05:00</updated><title type='text'>why would the amount of originality in the world d...</title><summary type='text'>why would the amount of originality in the world does not increase as people become more in number, educatedness (which is in many ways a way of assimilating what&amp;#39;s already been done), or interconnectedness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there is no reason i could think of why it should be so.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/3022088843944905039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/3022088843944905039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261667583548#c3022088843944905039' title=''/><author><name>babar ganesh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01898299856773302141</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/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-478390172"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4176905073771214163</id><published>2009-12-24T08:34:15.294-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T08:34:15.294-05:00</updated><title type='text'>am now re:reading  The Collected Poetry,prose.memo...</title><summary type='text'>am now re:reading  The Collected Poetry,prose.memories of Hans Arp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;           and just amazoned the book to find out that&lt;br /&gt;a copy is available for $108 and one for $75&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the problem I have with all of this computer &amp;quot;stuf n fluff&amp;quot; is the fucking censorship and insipidity &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seems like all of this &amp;quot;democratizationing&amp;quot; is reducing things to a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/4176905073771214163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2197921224909702431/comments/default/4176905073771214163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html?showComment=1261661655294#c4176905073771214163' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-foundation-invited-nine-writers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197921224909702431' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2197921224909702431' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2009"/></entry></feed>