<?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.post4903580062359121863..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/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/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>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8728954457482961782</id><published>2007-04-14T11:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T11:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reginald, I stick up for Ron because he has been f...</title><summary type='text'>Reginald, I stick up for Ron because he has been for some time one of the most important influences on me and he has throughout his life brought critical clarity to his examination of contemporary American poetry.  I am pleased to read on your blog that you share an interest in Ron’s criticism as well as Adorno, Pound, and Bernstein.  The implication of many who attack him is that he should write</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/8728954457482961782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/8728954457482961782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176564180000#c8728954457482961782' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2270584073303661877</id><published>2007-04-13T23:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-13T23:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ian Keenan,I have just returned from my partn...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ian Keenan,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have just returned from my partner&#39;s cousin&#39;s wedding. Though I am not a Christian, there is in much religion a core (too often honored in the breach) of love, forgiveness, mercy, and compassion of which I was reminded during the ceremony. I think I needed that reminder.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do not know you, but you seem quite bitter and angry. I know too well what it is like to</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/2270584073303661877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/2270584073303661877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176522600000#c2270584073303661877' title=''/><author><name>Reginald Shepherd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915927096"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9194866571498410659</id><published>2007-04-12T12:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T12:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I anthologize myself, and sing myself;No one has ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I anthologize myself, and sing myself;&lt;BR/&gt;No one has a Quietude more Quiet than Me,&lt;BR/&gt;and Your Quietude is just as Quiet as Mine;&lt;BR/&gt;let us go into the dim platitudes of the West and be quiet together, camerado,&lt;BR/&gt;for the anthologies will grow like the grass,&lt;BR/&gt;and the snow will fall like the snow,&lt;BR/&gt;and all things return to the Quietude from whence they came,&lt;BR/&gt;Hallelujah for Friday</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/9194866571498410659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/9194866571498410659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176395220000#c9194866571498410659' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5296189865537751443</id><published>2007-04-12T11:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T11:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian Keenan said:&gt;Since your syntactical objective ...</title><summary type='text'>Ian Keenan said:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&gt;Since your syntactical objective has become convincing Serbo-Croat readers that your satire of American poets is not in conflict with their own observations I suppose these matters of clarity don’t matter.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No, Ian, apparently &quot;these matters of clarity *don&#39;t* matter&quot;!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;:~ )&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/5296189865537751443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/5296189865537751443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176391020000#c5296189865537751443' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6985537272490913380</id><published>2007-04-12T11:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T11:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent, it’s not the length of your sentence that wa...</title><summary type='text'>Kent, it’s not the length of your sentence that was unclear, it was the construction of the sentence, since you immediately replaced the your characterization of the mythology of the milieu of your scorn with your own without a clarifying modifier.  Since your syntactical objective has become convincing Serbo-Croat readers that your satire of American poets is not in conflict with their own </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/6985537272490913380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/6985537272490913380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176390180000#c6985537272490913380' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1854017371865517315</id><published>2007-04-11T18:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T18:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ian,Well, that is a funny question you pose. I ...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, that is a funny question you pose. I think what I said was clear enough, but it was, as I&#39;d said, a really long sentence...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No, I meant that the straw man concept of the SofQ is used by Ron and some others to enable and promote the fiction that *they*, the so-called post-avant, constitute some kind of progressive poetic opposition.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Clear now?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1854017371865517315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1854017371865517315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176330060000#c1854017371865517315' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6324310013629936472</id><published>2007-04-11T17:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T17:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent, hi, who is suggesting that this milieu so id...</title><summary type='text'>Kent, hi, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;who is suggesting that this milieu so identified as SoQ or &#39;official verse culture&#39; constitutes some ‘progressive cultural opposition’?  Since Ron is the person who started using the term SoQ with relation to contemporary poetry, where does he do it, if that’s what you’re suggesting?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/6324310013629936472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/6324310013629936472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176325800000#c6324310013629936472' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3552110141792339571</id><published>2007-04-11T16:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T16:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My apologies. I said &quot;Robert Shepherd.&quot; I meant *R...</title><summary type='text'>My apologies. I said &quot;Robert Shepherd.&quot; I meant *Reginald Shepherd.*&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There is a poet from the UK named Robert Sheppard. I well know who the prominent U.S. poet Reginald Shepherd is. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My early Alzheimers...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3552110141792339571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3552110141792339571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176322680000#c3552110141792339571' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4164975409747476489</id><published>2007-04-11T14:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T14:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>btw I never said anything about you as a person, b...</title><summary type='text'>btw I never said anything about you as a person, but sought to dissect the cause of your attacks and your literary stances.  You called Ron dishonest and disturbingly flawed, which is a personal, ad hominem attack, of the nature I would never consider making against you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/4164975409747476489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/4164975409747476489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176315720000#c4164975409747476489' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4302459055704002697</id><published>2007-04-11T14:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T14:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For the record the only inaccuracy was the inferen...</title><summary type='text'>For the record the only inaccuracy was the inference that Rappelye was a buddy.  Since I have made the point that your views on writers are  a product of school ties, I won’t concern myself with your dismissive tone.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No member of the SoQ permits the attacks on his character in his comments section such as yours, which directly accused Ron of ‘intellectual and personal dishonesty’ and ‘</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/4302459055704002697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/4302459055704002697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176314460000#c4302459055704002697' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1726529871984163406</id><published>2007-04-11T13:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T13:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian,I have to ask: What &quot;SoQ platform&quot; is that?You...</title><summary type='text'>Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have to ask: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What &quot;SoQ platform&quot; is that?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You challenge Robert Shepherd to point out &quot;one single factual inaccuracy&quot; in your previous (very angry) post. I haven&#39;t read it very carefully, and not to speak in any way for Robert Shepherd, but I&#39;d say that there are, in this second, shorter comment of yours, *two* &quot;factual inaccuracies&quot; that could be pointed out:&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1726529871984163406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1726529871984163406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176313320000#c1726529871984163406' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3723594912579144538</id><published>2007-04-11T13:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T13:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To Ian Keenan,&quot;One single factual inaccuracy&quot;: Mei...</title><summary type='text'>To Ian Keenan,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;One single factual inaccuracy&quot;: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was not teaching at Brown while I was a student there. I have never even met her.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;One single factual inaccuracy&quot;: I didn&#39;t study with, know, or even meet ANY of the poets you list as affiliated with Iowa while I was a student there, though I have subsequently met several of them. I have also since met many </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3723594912579144538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3723594912579144538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176312240000#c3723594912579144538' title=''/><author><name>Reginald Shepherd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915927096"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8941338417243957366</id><published>2007-04-11T13:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T13:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think you have to look at Silliman&#39;s blog within...</title><summary type='text'>I think you have to look at Silliman&#39;s blog within the context of literary politics as it&#39;s really acted and spoken in the world.  We can regard the writing and publication of poetry as a completely non-political phenomenon in which the implication of partisan positions is insignificant or irrelevant.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have spoken here about the de-facto isolation of much of the best poetry written in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/8941338417243957366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/8941338417243957366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176311640000#c8941338417243957366' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-141748218551514391</id><published>2007-04-11T12:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T12:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If you are so concerned that inaccuracies are degr...</title><summary type='text'>If you are so concerned that inaccuracies are degrading the level of discourse perhaps you can point out one single factual inaccuracy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The SoQ platform stipulates:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. Always say in conferences or essays that you support discourse;&lt;BR/&gt;2. Avoid discourse at all costs and take great pains to discourage it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/141748218551514391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/141748218551514391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176307260000#c141748218551514391' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3954306599561659409</id><published>2007-04-11T10:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T10:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Define presumption as you&#39;re using it here.  It&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>Define presumption as you&#39;re using it here.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s not what one presumes to be or to call oneself but what others presume to think about you.  Or, it doesn&#39;t matter unless you &quot;publish&quot;.    &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Desperation is nice.  Discomfort less so.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Are you advocating censure and expurgation?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3954306599561659409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3954306599561659409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176301800000#c3954306599561659409' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1030007996081149189</id><published>2007-04-11T10:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T10:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron Silliman writes in his post on the anthology A...</title><summary type='text'>Ron Silliman writes in his post on the anthology American Poetry Now that &quot;I don’t think there was a general principle determining who did or did not get included.&quot; However, editor Ed Ochester makes his criteria for exclusion quite clear in his introduction to the volume. In particular, he did not include authors of prize-winning books who have not or not yet subsequently published a volume in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1030007996081149189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1030007996081149189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176301440000#c1030007996081149189' title=''/><author><name>Reginald Shepherd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915927096"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7048796974625060449</id><published>2007-04-10T22:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T22:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>too many presuming to be poetstoo many presumptuou...</title><summary type='text'>too many presuming to be poets&lt;BR/&gt;too many presumptuous &quot;poems&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;not enough discomfort&lt;BR/&gt;not enough desperation&lt;BR/&gt;freedom of speech&lt;BR/&gt;freedom of press&lt;BR/&gt;behold the tower of babble&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;j</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/7048796974625060449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/7048796974625060449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176258000000#c7048796974625060449' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1947274427064870404</id><published>2007-04-10T14:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T14:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reginald btw, in what your buddy Greg Rappelye des...</title><summary type='text'>Reginald btw, in what your buddy Greg Rappelye described as ‘calling out’ Ron,  you wrote this on your blog January 7th 2007: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“I want to make it clear that I am very sympathetic to much experimental poetry, and to many of its stated aims. Many of my favorite living poets, among them Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Kathleen Fraser, Ann Lauterbach, Michael Palmer, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Aaron </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1947274427064870404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1947274427064870404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176228960000#c1947274427064870404' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7498459755330925057</id><published>2007-04-10T13:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T13:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reginald Shepherd, You surely know it, at least yo...</title><summary type='text'>Reginald Shepherd,&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;You surely know it, at least you must sense it, given that you are a blogger, but from your above comment one can&#39;t be sure: &lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;The poetic field is all about agonistic avowal and the struggle for position. Long has been, long will be. The Greeks (those insults!), Elizabethans, Vorticists, Deep Imagists, New Formalists, Flarfists, etc, choose your era or school</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/7498459755330925057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/7498459755330925057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176226920000#c7498459755330925057' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8592627628699379984</id><published>2007-04-10T09:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T09:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jason, if you like Ron’s work maybe you can send a...</title><summary type='text'>Jason, if you like Ron’s work maybe you can send a letter to the Guggenheims assuring them that you find him rigid and reactionary.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/8592627628699379984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/8592627628699379984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176210900000#c8592627628699379984' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7472744636062364411</id><published>2007-04-10T07:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T07:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I once published something called the Black Hole A...</title><summary type='text'>I once published something called the Black Hole Anthology&quot;.  I solicited poems from all the greatest living poets of every school in America, and bound them in one great volume.  I then placed the book in the CERN particle accelerator located at a secret location underneath Switzerland, and pushed the button.  The poems are now widely read and appreciated in at least six alternate universes.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/7472744636062364411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/7472744636062364411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176205860000#c7472744636062364411' 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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3039901298842839686</id><published>2007-04-10T00:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-10T00:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gee, when I used a tone like RS&#39;s in his comments ...</title><summary type='text'>Gee, when I used a tone like RS&#39;s in his comments he chose to delete my comment. (Oh, well, he did post my first &quot;Duh!&quot;, then got the huffy last word.) &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And I wasn&#39;t even disagreeing with him! I mean what can I say?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whatever whatever. I think the way you examine new anthologies for their biases is worthwhile. I, too, find irksome the tendencies of certain &quot;non&quot;-schools to choose</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3039901298842839686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/3039901298842839686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176178620000#c3039901298842839686' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Ingersoll</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-38984541"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1148891578588891957</id><published>2007-04-09T21:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T21:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To argue so vehemently over something  as meaningl...</title><summary type='text'>To argue so vehemently over something  as meaningless as poety! Tristan Tzara wrote, &quot;No one can take art seriously.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1148891578588891957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/1148891578588891957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176167400000#c1148891578588891957' title=''/><author><name>subtext</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17628582735220361594</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1812341712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5421010791521869927</id><published>2007-04-09T19:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T19:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, you&#39;re just going to have to stop spewing all...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, you&#39;re just going to have to stop spewing all this negaTIVITY!!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poetry is a just wonderful, beautiful thing.  Do you think God put us on this earth to hurt and criticize and say nasty unnuanced things to other people IN PUBLIC?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your work is so cheerful and upbeat and filled with pretty nourishing things, I can hardly believe it&#39;s the same person saying these awful, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/5421010791521869927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/5421010791521869927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176160920000#c5421010791521869927' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5836504944803556180</id><published>2007-04-09T19:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T19:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Doctor Laura, thanks for taking my call!My Ex...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Doctor Laura, thanks for taking my call!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My Ex and I have been separated for 8 months, after having gotten back together temporarily, and our stepson got his niece pregnant.  I myself have a weight problem, which prevented me from having any influence on her mother, who just hated Jason and wouldn&#39;t let him visit her--that is, once we found out that the fetus was somehow deformed...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/5836504944803556180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4903580062359121863/comments/default/5836504944803556180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html?showComment=1176160320000#c5836504944803556180' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/04/it-must-be-hard-getting-out-of-graduate.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4903580062359121863' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4903580062359121863' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2007"/></entry></feed>