<?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.post3827641402085933742..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/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.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>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6395058498546970099</id><published>2008-02-29T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T10:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>you should make your statcounter public, it would ...</title><summary type='text'>you should make your statcounter public, it would be &#39;interesting&#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6395058498546970099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6395058498546970099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1204298400000#c6395058498546970099' title=''/><author><name>Tao Lin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059</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/_bFW1IEwGpF0/R5_6Qo0U2DI/AAAAAAAAAWY/zbNDfha4SHQ/S220/taolin.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1711110497"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7920628386493081330</id><published>2008-02-29T00:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T00:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>happy milestone or benchmark or whatever :)</title><summary type='text'>happy milestone or benchmark or whatever :)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/7920628386493081330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/7920628386493081330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1204264200000#c7920628386493081330' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915928048"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3195284602516554300</id><published>2008-02-26T15:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-26T15:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s a wild concept: have a poetry reading.Try t...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s a wild concept: have a poetry reading.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Try this: publish your own book.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Everybody seems to agree that wealth is not in a poet&#39;s future, so I suppose it comes down to whether one is motivated by a love of poetry or a need for recognition and external validation of one&#39;s self worth.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you write for today, you are a craftsman.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you write for tomorrow, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/3195284602516554300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/3195284602516554300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1204058940000#c3195284602516554300' 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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6019809009172508339</id><published>2008-02-26T13:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-26T13:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Many of the print journals have a flood of submiss...</title><summary type='text'>Many of the print journals have a flood of submissions such that they only take one poem for every hundred or more that are submitted.  Green Mountains Review editor Neil Shepard told me last week (in a rejection note) that he almost took one of my poems but only takes one out of every hundred poems or more that are submitted, and he encouraged me to try again in the fall (it&#39;s considered rude by</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6019809009172508339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6019809009172508339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1204050540000#c6019809009172508339' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7037196791915709664</id><published>2008-02-26T02:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-26T02:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>tzzzztzzzzzzt      ttzzzzztzttzzzzzt crak  pzzzt  ...</title><summary type='text'>tzzzztzzzzzzt      ttzzzzztzt&lt;BR/&gt;tzzzzzt crak  pzzzt   phzzzph!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;more than one surmised&lt;BR/&gt;a silencing&lt;BR/&gt;of the rebel monk&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;gots them badluck&lt;BR/&gt;in bangkoc blues baby&lt;BR/&gt;ain&#39;t nuthin you can do&lt;BR/&gt;i gots em all day long&lt;BR/&gt;and alls the nighttime too</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/7037196791915709664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/7037196791915709664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1204009560000#c7037196791915709664' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</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/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8798768218638685733</id><published>2008-02-25T20:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T20:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Where to start with all this?Humans are tactile be...</title><summary type='text'>Where to start with all this?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Humans are tactile beings.&lt;BR/&gt;Broadly speaking, the Internet--&lt;BR/&gt;as it now is--is virtual,&lt;BR/&gt;but not tactile.&lt;BR/&gt;Some say that within 5 years&lt;BR/&gt;the Internet &lt;I&gt;will be&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;broadly tactile.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whatever else they are,&lt;BR/&gt;the most visited sites&lt;BR/&gt;are sources of information.&lt;BR/&gt;Your blog is.&lt;BR/&gt;And, yes, because you allow comments,&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/8798768218638685733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/8798768218638685733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203988080000#c8798768218638685733' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6415187185288309170</id><published>2008-02-25T20:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T20:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s strange to see so many anti-technology people...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s strange to see so many anti-technology people commenting on a blog post with their little blogger icons. Seems like most of you get something out of the internet poetry conversation, otherwise you wouldn&#39;t be here at all. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As a teenager in nowhereseville Oklahoma, where the only poetry books I came across were anthologies of Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning moldering on the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6415187185288309170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6415187185288309170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203987660000#c6415187185288309170' title=''/><author><name>L. Trent</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12175950201511243122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1878720032"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5642859576044430969</id><published>2008-02-25T19:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T19:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As opposed to the negative comments here :for an a...</title><summary type='text'>As opposed to the negative comments here :&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;for an anti-whatever isolato like me, blogging - in spite of its bad aspects, which are many - offers a nicely unofficial, relatively unsponsored, means of shouting from the rooftops EXACTLY what you think.  There&#39;s freedom in that, which some have not explored.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp; thanks for starting all this in poetry-world, Ron.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/5642859576044430969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/5642859576044430969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203986160000#c5642859576044430969' 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/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1894847909927608879</id><published>2008-02-25T17:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T17:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Baker,perhaps you do not believein the genius ...</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Baker,&lt;BR/&gt;perhaps you do not believe&lt;BR/&gt;in the genius of ge, that is, its lack or lux, or if yule whill, afflux. It is certain that its genius often poetrays some coinky &lt;BR/&gt;con + &#39;densed&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;for share then a venn of &#39;blog&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;@&lt;BR/&gt;||blague, n.(and v.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pretentious falsehood, ‘humbug.’&lt;BR/&gt;   1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) II. iii. v. vi. 313 The largest, most inspiring piece</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/1894847909927608879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/1894847909927608879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203980040000#c1894847909927608879' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8089162217147593492</id><published>2008-02-25T17:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T17:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i again statethat poetryas well as democracyhappen...</title><summary type='text'>i again state&lt;BR/&gt;that poetry&lt;BR/&gt;as well as democracy&lt;BR/&gt;happens best locally&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i&#39;m with ed on this one&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;while i&#39;ve appreciated the&lt;BR/&gt;crash course in contemporary poetix&lt;BR/&gt;and would never deny the &lt;BR/&gt;recent influence in my thinking&lt;BR/&gt;and writing&lt;BR/&gt;i will still maintain&lt;BR/&gt;that the home and the neighborhood&lt;BR/&gt;are the places for good language&lt;BR/&gt;for song and for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/8089162217147593492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/8089162217147593492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203979560000#c8089162217147593492' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</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/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4206400202002545823</id><published>2008-02-25T17:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T17:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for coming along for the ride?Thank you for...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for coming along for the ride?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you for loading up the wagon and starting the car.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do not know how the poetry establishment feels about you, your work, or what you do here almost every day, and you may never be nominated for poet laureate of the United States, but perhaps better, I believe you will be remembered as a trailblazer, someone who used the technology of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/4206400202002545823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/4206400202002545823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203976920000#c4206400202002545823' title=''/><author><name>Levari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03797267895979862964</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.glennmcdonald.com/images/Marian%20McPartland%20%20-%20Jazz%20portrait,%20A%20Great%20Day%20in%20Harlem%20-%201958.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4978128122644347163</id><published>2008-02-25T15:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T15:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Problem with huge numbers is crowd control.  Woods...</title><summary type='text'>Problem with huge numbers is crowd control.  Woodstock didn&#39;t have much of a security concern, but Altamont was a different story.  Not to speak of hygiene.  Big problem at Woodstock was the lack of toilets.  Speaking of which,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m beginning to see why you edit the comments box.  For the first six months at Lutheran Surrealism, I was only getting 4 or 5 hits a day.  Most of those were me</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/4978128122644347163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/4978128122644347163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203971760000#c4978128122644347163' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2875320269518111263</id><published>2008-02-25T15:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T15:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>nothing/nothing much EVER happens in a crowd!&quot;blog...</title><summary type='text'>nothing/nothing much EVER happens in a crowd!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;blog&quot; is a good name fore this &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;let me revisit  and quote from Tom Merton:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;...Mother wanted me to be independent, and not to run with the herd.  I was to be original, individual, I was to have a definite character and ideals of my own,.  I was not to be an article thrown together, on the common bourgeois pattern, on </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/2875320269518111263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/2875320269518111263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203970380000#c2875320269518111263' 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/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5647674304855191328</id><published>2008-02-25T14:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T14:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A generous offering from you, Ron, and a big plus ...</title><summary type='text'>A generous offering from you, Ron, and a big plus for the communities of writing and beyond. The discourse, its genuineness, and consistent richness and honesty make the difference. Bravo!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/5647674304855191328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/5647674304855191328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203969060000#c5647674304855191328' title=''/><author><name>Sheila Murphy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13792032204825244976</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1614764991"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4504656239368480757</id><published>2008-02-25T14:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T14:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I will say that most of my favorite young poets DO...</title><summary type='text'>I will say that most of my favorite young poets DO consciously avoid &quot;poetry&#39;s existence on the net,&quot; at least to some degree, and it might be worth thinking about how this affects their work. I believe  it&#39;s their work (and well-being, maybe) that they are concerned for...just a thought, anyhow.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/4504656239368480757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/4504656239368480757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203967620000#c4504656239368480757' title=''/><author><name>Corina Copp</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01730218396310597103</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1732743999"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3945281378454201422</id><published>2008-02-25T14:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T14:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;We are moving...toward a day on which poetry is s...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;We are moving...toward a day on which poetry is something that exists primarily on the web, having made the migration away from print &amp; bookstores to a degree that right now seems unfathomable. Those older poets who currently refuse to publish on the web – they do exist – will discover soon enough that they have painted themselves into the proverbial corner.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/3945281378454201422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/3945281378454201422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203967020000#c3945281378454201422' 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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7657707749665859613</id><published>2008-02-25T11:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T11:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel,It&#39;s a handy index for a large crowd. Plus ...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s a handy index for a large crowd. Plus it was only 39 years ago, which is the day before yesterday when you&#39;re my age!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/7657707749665859613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/7657707749665859613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203957000000#c7657707749665859613' 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/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6811186287712012344</id><published>2008-02-25T11:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T11:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>for Rune PsybillimonstAnd LoThe Kraken tipped his ...</title><summary type='text'>for Rune Psybillimonst&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And Lo&lt;BR/&gt;The Kraken tipped his hat&lt;BR/&gt;the stormy brow reveal&#39;d&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;a hundred thousand &lt;BR/&gt;processors clupfed&lt;BR/&gt;clugged and readers&lt;BR/&gt;then reveal&#39;d&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;by Ockam&#39;s beard!&lt;BR/&gt;wheeling to fur-ther&lt;BR/&gt;ond-dys&#39;s coerce&lt;BR/&gt;coarse curse&lt;BR/&gt;thy shadow only&lt;BR/&gt;not be grass&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;racing rays swee&lt;BR/&gt;glim the tall trees&lt;BR/&gt;the para sol&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6811186287712012344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/6811186287712012344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203956040000#c6811186287712012344' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8669106975427981462</id><published>2008-02-25T11:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T11:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice!For a digital immigrant you speak the languag...</title><summary type='text'>Nice!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For a digital immigrant you speak the language w/ little accent.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/8669106975427981462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/8669106975427981462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203955980000#c8669106975427981462' title=''/><author><name>Tom Mandel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10763025165272538833</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.tommandel.com/tmsmile.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987910661"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-833696435225201898</id><published>2008-02-25T09:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T09:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Three woodstocks&quot;? That&#39;s your frame of reference...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Three woodstocks&quot;? That&#39;s your frame of reference? It was 40 years ago!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/833696435225201898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/833696435225201898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203949620000#c833696435225201898' title=''/><author><name>Daniel P</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5180255522005640054</id><published>2008-02-25T08:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T08:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>we are the sillimenwe are the stuffed menreading t...</title><summary type='text'>we are the sillimen&lt;BR/&gt;we are the stuffed men&lt;BR/&gt;reading together&lt;BR/&gt;head-peace furled withdraw at last</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/5180255522005640054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3827641402085933742/comments/default/5180255522005640054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html?showComment=1203945720000#c5180255522005640054' title=''/><author><name>Colin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00329054918618041522</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_CxURA7J2YV0/R2sAAEOoupI/AAAAAAAAADo/39Yf2FTQz-k/S220/n61006798_33867021_2583.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-took-this-blog-two-years-five-months.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827641402085933742' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3827641402085933742' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1617533599"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2008"/></entry></feed>