<?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.post2265842452327188989..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/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/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>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4520831343446301159</id><published>2009-01-26T03:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T03:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>OK, after an intensive and soul-searching dive int...</title><summary type='text'>OK, after an intensive and soul-searching dive into the heart of this terribly dark matter I can honestly say&lt;BR/&gt;she reads like Barack dances.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4520831343446301159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4520831343446301159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232959440000#c4520831343446301159' title=''/><author><name>giveitaname</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14218614927360980192</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-912166607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1562449914644854273</id><published>2009-01-26T02:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T02:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That&amp;#39;s interesting - &amp;quot;Many poets turn poe...</title><summary type='text'>That&amp;#39;s interesting - &lt;BR/&gt;&amp;quot;Many poets turn poetry into theatre, adding the &amp;quot;dramatics&amp;quot; of ego &amp;amp; occasion - it&amp;#39;s basically a power trip.&amp;quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This inaugural poem, the way it expressed the positivist view. &lt;BR/&gt;No agenda, no forceful pointing toward a strictly selected and inhibiting perception there?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Beauty, defined by who mmmmmmmm?&lt;BR/&gt;If beauty is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/1562449914644854273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/1562449914644854273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232955120000#c1562449914644854273' title=''/><author><name>giveitaname</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14218614927360980192</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-912166607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5332084330252338967</id><published>2009-01-24T23:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T23:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>For me, E. Alexander&amp;#39;s poem &amp;amp; delivery acc...</title><summary type='text'>For me, E. Alexander&amp;#39;s poem &amp;amp; delivery accentuated the difference between poetry &amp;amp; (political) rhetoric.  This is what I liked about it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Many poets turn poetry into theatre, adding the &amp;quot;dramatics&amp;quot; of ego &amp;amp; occasion - it&amp;#39;s basically a power trip.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Alexander&amp;#39;s understated, word-by-word recitation, of her simple, direct &amp;amp; colloquial poem (the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5332084330252338967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5332084330252338967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232857080000#c5332084330252338967' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</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/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5730099216590230494</id><published>2009-01-24T19:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T19:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Matt wrote:“Gary, who are the prose poetry people?...</title><summary type='text'>Matt wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“Gary, who are the prose poetry people? Like, Baudelaire? Is he a prose poetry person? How many points does he get?&lt;BR/&gt;Oh wait, he probably shouldn&#39;t get any, since Alexander&#39;s poem wasn&#39;t a prose poem.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jeez, Matt, I was just kidding. But your comments certainly beg the question: what, exactly, IS poetry these days? Is Prose Poetry really Poetry? Why was poetry </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5730099216590230494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5730099216590230494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232842860000#c5730099216590230494' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3982189026623570255</id><published>2009-01-24T16:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T16:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Without a doubt the best moment of the entire page...</title><summary type='text'>Without a doubt the best moment of the entire pageant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/3982189026623570255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/3982189026623570255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232832780000#c3982189026623570255' title=''/><author><name>Jeff Brennan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04316374080872785614</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/_hmGUk4ZVvZI/SPv56lmV6EI/AAAAAAAAAAs/H8bAkaDU9AM/S220/n10401672_31449065_2287.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-156484276"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5298532154196775600</id><published>2009-01-24T12:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T12:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This question of whether or not humor has a place ...</title><summary type='text'>This question of whether or not humor has a place in an inauguration ceremony - &lt;BR/&gt;the poem answered that question.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe we just expect too much from anything with the label &#39;poem&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe it was just another reading that happened to be broadcast to more people than any other reading ever.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe if there was some kind of music, a big screen backdrop of string-pulling images</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5298532154196775600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5298532154196775600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232816940000#c5298532154196775600' title=''/><author><name>giveitaname</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14218614927360980192</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-912166607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-257260685158535108</id><published>2009-01-24T11:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T11:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If it were me reading for the same audience from b...</title><summary type='text'>If it were me reading for the same audience from behind bulletproof glass, I&#39;d pause after each and every syllable just to give them some reverb time.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/257260685158535108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/257260685158535108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232814480000#c257260685158535108' title=''/><author><name>Halvard Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01464580122014170701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_W4N1E5s3nXo/SGaeLwGqs9I/AAAAAAAAAKM/2-8Xs63G42k/S220/51DrSbBAPVL._SS500_.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1589256002"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-21142352273784876</id><published>2009-01-24T09:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T09:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Maybe that&#39;s the point that the prose poetry peopl...</title><summary type='text'>Maybe that&#39;s the point that the prose poetry people scored.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/21142352273784876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/21142352273784876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232806440000#c21142352273784876' 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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6724134735693728668</id><published>2009-01-24T03:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T03:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Gary, who are the prose poetry people?  Like, Baud...</title><summary type='text'>Gary, who are the prose poetry people?  Like, Baudelaire?  Is he a prose poetry person?  How many points does he get?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh wait, he probably shouldn&#39;t get any, since Alexander&#39;s poem wasn&#39;t a prose poem.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/6724134735693728668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/6724134735693728668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232784420000#c6724134735693728668' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SXXMvQ7yRrI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iHgQG5bXM88/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5944562510010049694</id><published>2009-01-23T22:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T22:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I took an early lunch last Tuesday in order to hea...</title><summary type='text'>I took an early lunch last Tuesday in order to hear the inaugural poem. I had listened to an interview with Elizabeth Alexander the Sunday before and she wouldn’t reveal the content of her poem. I was intrigued.&lt;BR/&gt;I left early for lunch because I thought the poem would come before Obama’s speech, so I listened to his entire speech. I actually got in trouble for taking a long lunch because I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5944562510010049694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/5944562510010049694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232766120000#c5944562510010049694' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3644528811159366106</id><published>2009-01-23T15:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T15:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The inaugural poem was simple and childlike, not n...</title><summary type='text'>The inaugural poem was simple and childlike, not necessarily a bad place to encourage public interest in poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Quincy Jones wonders why the U.S. doesn&#39;t have a cabinet post for the arts, since many of the Millenial Gen are ignorant of Coltrane and Parker. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Possibly these two thoughts are related.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/3644528811159366106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/3644528811159366106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232741280000#c3644528811159366106' title=''/><author><name>Mary Jo Malo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18148588310769074332</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1737322265"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4024173294661934342</id><published>2009-01-23T14:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T14:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>fascinating trail on big bill broonzythanxj</title><summary type='text'>fascinating trail on big bill broonzy&lt;BR/&gt;thanx&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;j</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4024173294661934342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4024173294661934342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232740260000#c4024173294661934342' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2713374010583076546</id><published>2009-01-23T14:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T14:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron -- That bit of verse about colors goes waaaaay...</title><summary type='text'>Ron -- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That bit of verse about colors goes waaaaayyyyy back before Ali -- before even Clay --</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/2713374010583076546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/2713374010583076546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232739540000#c2713374010583076546' title=''/><author><name>Aldon Lynn Nielsen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02149592761314695817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2344/2688/320/DSC01144.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1409052359"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2665283824418593893</id><published>2009-01-23T14:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T14:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron: I understood the closing section as a riff on...</title><summary type='text'>Ron: I understood the closing section as a riff on blues singer Big Bill Bloonzy&#39;s &quot;Black, Brown, and White,&quot; which has the lines&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;What you gonna do about the old jim crow?&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Now if you was white, should be all right,&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;If you was brown, could stick around,&lt;BR/&gt;:But if you black, whoa brother, get back...&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/2665283824418593893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/2665283824418593893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232738580000#c2665283824418593893' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14338977682353659890</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1750477568"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-839260310189374551</id><published>2009-01-23T14:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T14:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Petey Greene was the original rhyming-rapper   a D...</title><summary type='text'>Petey Greene was the original rhyming-rapper   &lt;BR/&gt;a D.C. dj in early 60&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Blavat made &quot;it&quot; &quot;white&quot; ...  later  (I think)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the attitude/word &quot;signifying&quot; (also) rings a bell via Petey&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;both Greene and Lowery BIG in MLK times..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/839260310189374551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/839260310189374551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232737920000#c839260310189374551' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4731342789495912528</id><published>2009-01-23T13:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T13:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It might be worth remembering that in the end ther...</title><summary type='text'>It might be worth remembering that in the end there was nothing to the Cheshire cat but that grin....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4731342789495912528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4731342789495912528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232734500000#c4731342789495912528' 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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1717448943118963958</id><published>2009-01-23T12:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T12:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The &quot;black get back&quot; formula is not from Muhammad ...</title><summary type='text'>The &quot;black get back&quot; formula is not from Muhammad Ali--at least not originally, I can well believe he may have echoed it at some point in his verbal joustings--but from a 1947 blues song by Big Bill Broonzy that begins&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This little song that I&#39;m singin&#39; about,&lt;BR/&gt;People you know it&#39;s true.&lt;BR/&gt;If you is black and gotta work for a livin&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;Now, this is what they&#39;ll say to you.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/1717448943118963958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/1717448943118963958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232732940000#c1717448943118963958' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1069940278232916697</id><published>2009-01-23T12:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T12:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yup.Performance and the material text.  Dramatic d...</title><summary type='text'>Yup.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Performance and the material text.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dramatic delivery and composition.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My thoughts exactly.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/1069940278232916697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/1069940278232916697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232731920000#c1069940278232916697' 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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2174485928281131525</id><published>2009-01-23T11:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T11:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, What a kind, kind way to show us that you get...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, What a kind, kind way to show us that you get it: The poet (and in this case, the preacher) matter even more than the poem and the prayer.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/2174485928281131525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/2174485928281131525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232729340000#c2174485928281131525' title=''/><author><name>DeadMule</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1345957712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8536374921866936836</id><published>2009-01-23T11:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T11:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>After seeing the poem in it&#39;s intended form, it ap...</title><summary type='text'>After seeing the poem in it&#39;s intended form, it appears that she may have been reading the line breaks...&lt;BR/&gt;With regard to Lowery, not citing the Johnson song, i don&#39;t think he should have to. For some people in America that song is just as well known as the Star Spangled Banner. In fact, The US Navy only started using the Star Spangled banner officially in 1889 (only 10 years before Johnson </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/8536374921866936836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/8536374921866936836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232728500000#c8536374921866936836' title=''/><author><name>anacostia_poet</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01845644082103330582</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1817628046"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4364469274075107151</id><published>2009-01-23T10:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T10:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>all things being equali felt lowery&#39;s words held t...</title><summary type='text'>all things being equal&lt;BR/&gt;i felt lowery&#39;s words held the day&lt;BR/&gt;came at the right moment&lt;BR/&gt;placed themselves in the mind of the hearers&lt;BR/&gt;with the relative ease of a singer&lt;BR/&gt;and it rang louder or as loud as aretha&#39;s rendition or her hat&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;one takes solace in the everydayness of alexander&#39;s witness&lt;BR/&gt;but the fact of the matter was&lt;BR/&gt;it was not everyday&lt;BR/&gt;and the power of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4364469274075107151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4364469274075107151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232725380000#c4364469274075107151' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8687208198787838942</id><published>2009-01-23T10:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T10:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Aretha&#39;s hat!Pure poetry!And Aretha&#39;s rendition of...</title><summary type='text'>Aretha&#39;s hat!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pure poetry!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And Aretha&#39;s rendition of &quot;America&quot; (&quot;My Country Tis of Thee&quot;) -- and there was no pre-recording of that -- was just short of poetry, the damn cold  keeping her from getting it exactly perfect.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And that song&#39;s lyrics -- while lyrics -- have moments of poetry too: &quot;sweet land of liberty&quot; / &quot;let freedom ring.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/8687208198787838942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/8687208198787838942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232725020000#c8687208198787838942' 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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7663030065352397734</id><published>2009-01-23T10:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T10:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lowery&#39;s benediction includes many more quotations...</title><summary type='text'>Lowery&#39;s &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4SrWpZNd-yocKSO7_9FO51iLJowD95R4RTG0&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;benediction&lt;/A&gt; includes many more quotations than just the Johnson. &quot;For all the saints, who from their labors rest&quot; was one that caught my ear.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/7663030065352397734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/7663030065352397734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232723520000#c7663030065352397734' title=''/><author><name>Vance Maverick</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jzbX-mkVPQs/SUdd0u-AooI/AAAAAAAAAGU/ab_RjG-VDzY/S220/gaze.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876395077"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4080467511727746544</id><published>2009-01-23T09:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T09:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, the benediction, and specifically those few l...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, the benediction, and specifically those few lines that you cite, were my favorite part of the inauguration as well. Clearly a quote from Muhammad Ali is not great poetry in &amp;amp; of itself, but in context it did more of what I think poetry should do, than Alexander&amp;#39;s poem did (though anyone who has ever had to write a poem &amp;quot;to assignment&amp;quot; might empathize with her). Those </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4080467511727746544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/4080467511727746544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232722620000#c4080467511727746544' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3994395074800321887</id><published>2009-01-23T09:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-23T09:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t know if the quote was taken from Muhammad ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t know if the quote was taken from Muhammad Ali too, but the end of the Rev. Lowery&#39;s prayer most certainly was playing with the song by Big Bill Bronzy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;This little song that I&#39;m singin&#39; about,&lt;BR/&gt;people, you know that it&#39;s true&lt;BR/&gt;If you&#39;re black and gotta work for livin&#39;,&lt;BR/&gt;now, this is what they will say to you,&lt;BR/&gt;they says, &#39;If you was white, you&#39;d be alright,&lt;BR/&gt;if </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/3994395074800321887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2265842452327188989/comments/default/3994395074800321887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html?showComment=1232722440000#c3994395074800321887' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11724467382608715989</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O6xM4MWOGow/SRYt5cR06qI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/N22Vlkm3Ys4/s1600-R/2844228665_e2026b7e0f_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/there-were-three-instances-of-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2265842452327188989' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2265842452327188989' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1045868663"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2009"/></entry></feed>