<?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.post4013468575014033793..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/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.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>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5280655645026871127</id><published>2010-06-30T10:16:09.863-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T10:16:09.863-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Not only was Sonnenberg interested in poetry, he w...</title><summary type='text'>Not only was Sonnenberg interested in poetry, he wrote it himself; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n21/ben-sonnenberg/two-poems&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;click here for a sample&lt;/a&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/5280655645026871127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/5280655645026871127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html?showComment=1277907369863#c5280655645026871127' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4013468575014033793' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4013468575014033793' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 30, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5897086599717141163</id><published>2010-06-28T23:14:32.684-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T23:14:32.684-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Grand Street, Boulevard, and Oblek were the three ...</title><summary type='text'>Grand Street, Boulevard, and Oblek were the three magazines to which Kenneth Koch, whom I studied with in college, recommended that his students submit.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/5897086599717141163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/5897086599717141163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html?showComment=1277781272684#c5897086599717141163' title=''/><author><name>Max Winter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04015402378429631819</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/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4013468575014033793' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4013468575014033793' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1354347098"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1933159267001113745</id><published>2010-06-28T13:21:26.614-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T13:21:26.614-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Condolences to all who knew him, and Grand Street ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;Condolences to all who knew him, and &lt;i&gt;Grand Street&lt;/i&gt; in the decade Sonnenberg was the driving force (1981-1990) was a poetic compilation of deluxe writing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But poetry qua poetry never lit Sonnenberg&amp;#39;s fuse, right? -- at least to measure by the amount and what he published.  His &amp;#39;zine was heavy on essays, memoirs, and fiction, light on poetry.  That&amp;#39;s okay, and most</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/1933159267001113745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/1933159267001113745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html?showComment=1277745686614#c1933159267001113745' 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/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4013468575014033793' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4013468575014033793' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8608078474025849368</id><published>2010-06-28T13:05:36.795-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T13:05:36.795-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sad and a bit strange to see this today. Just this...</title><summary type='text'>Sad and a bit strange to see this today. Just this morning I was finishing up Christopher Hitchens&amp;#39;s tremendously fun memoir, Hitch-22, and Sonnenberg figures lovingly there (Hitchens published frequently in Grand Street when Sonnenberg was editor). One of my first publications, in fact, was in the Sonnenberg-era Grand Street-- a review-essay, whose warm, handwritten note of acceptance from </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/8608078474025849368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/8608078474025849368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html?showComment=1277744736795#c8608078474025849368' 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/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4013468575014033793' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4013468575014033793' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7844044922799883115</id><published>2010-06-28T10:59:22.319-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T10:59:22.319-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When, in early November of 1988, the New Yorker de...</title><summary type='text'>When, in early November of 1988, the New Yorker declined to publish a story of mine, &amp;quot;Born Here&amp;quot;, my editor there, Pat Strachan, took me on a pilgrimage to the Riverside Drive address of Ben Sonnenberg Jr, -- of course, as a reader, at least, I was already very familiar of GRAND STREET. Ben worked with me on, and published, that story, and, later, another one, &amp;quot;Quiet&amp;quot; (which </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/7844044922799883115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4013468575014033793/comments/default/7844044922799883115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html?showComment=1277737162319#c7844044922799883115' title=''/><author><name>Rick Rofihe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03225624514064362753</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/2010/06/ben-sonnenberg-1936-2010.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4013468575014033793' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4013468575014033793' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-343912938"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2010"/></entry></feed>