<?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.post8414303278772232840..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/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/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>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-198181312623599443</id><published>2009-04-21T08:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T08:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Henry Miller&#xa;once told me&#xa;&#xa;&quot;draw how you like, and...</title><summary type='text'>Henry Miller&lt;br /&gt;once told me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;draw how you like, and die happy&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and I say ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(and you can quote me, as so many free-quaint-lee do)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&quot;you&#39;ve been in the shit so long,&lt;br /&gt;you can no longer smell the stink&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or the scent of a white-yellow-red-black &quot;rose&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/198181312623599443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/198181312623599443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240316940000#c198181312623599443' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4193494825535173551</id><published>2009-04-21T00:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T00:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Phaneronoemikon:&#xa;&#xa;Yeah, well, have you ever tried ...</title><summary type='text'>Phaneronoemikon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, well, have you ever tried collaboration?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poetry by committee.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends matter, but they don&#39;t write your poems.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/4193494825535173551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/4193494825535173551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240287960000#c4193494825535173551' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1720648205301674054</id><published>2009-04-20T17:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T17:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Henry:&#xa;&#xa;I think our thought follows similar paths....</title><summary type='text'>Henry:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think our thought follows similar paths.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1720648205301674054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1720648205301674054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240262640000#c1720648205301674054' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3768718512238473649</id><published>2009-04-20T15:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T15:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I reject the &quot;social&quot; categorically as an engine o...</title><summary type='text'>I reject the &quot;social&quot; categorically as an engine of literary production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to be a proenis, but&lt;br /&gt;even alone, Curtis, you are&lt;br /&gt;a society of cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot ~that~ strongly enough.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3768718512238473649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3768718512238473649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240255800000#c3768718512238473649' 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/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8861089371092491004</id><published>2009-04-20T15:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T15:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for mentioning Ron Jones, Seth. He was on m...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for mentioning Ron Jones, Seth. He was on my mind as I read this entire stretch of comments.&lt;br /&gt;Rebecca</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8861089371092491004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8861089371092491004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240254960000#c8861089371092491004' title=''/><author><name>Radish King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/54/142341732_5c3580d6ba_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-597158701"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7388189339871164658</id><published>2009-04-20T11:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T11:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I always thought that when it came to art, it&amp;#39;...</title><summary type='text'>I always thought that when it came to art, it&amp;#39;s quality, not quantities, that count.  But Seth &amp;amp; Ron &amp;amp; all are assembling an impressive body of statistics here, about poetries, sub-poetries, sub-sub-communities, &amp;amp; so on.  Soon you&amp;#39;ll have gathered enough life-to-death data to start a decent insurance program for poets.  With variable rates, of course, depending on whether your</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/7388189339871164658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/7388189339871164658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240241640000#c7388189339871164658' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2223421897738188462</id><published>2009-04-20T10:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T10:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are different kinds of trees. Does that mean...</title><summary type='text'>There are different kinds of trees. Does that mean there&#39;s no such thing as trees?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2223421897738188462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2223421897738188462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240238400000#c2223421897738188462' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SXXMvQ7yRrI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iHgQG5bXM88/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1658534082190527207</id><published>2009-04-20T10:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T10:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seth:&#xa;&#xa;I ultimately rejected the possibility of pa...</title><summary type='text'>Seth:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I ultimately rejected the possibility of participation in a regional mix--it&#39;s just my character, I hate groups, affiliations, commities, the like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have said many times on this blog that there are regional literary movements that are ignored by the Eastern publication establishment--America has this spread-out, territorial quality which allows certain parts to thrive</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1658534082190527207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1658534082190527207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240236300000#c1658534082190527207' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1272026539847467867</id><published>2009-04-20T07:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T07:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think&#xa;not so much to be&#xa;but it is an habit&#xa;&#xa;diff...</title><summary type='text'>I think&lt;br /&gt;not so much to be&lt;br /&gt;but it is an habit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;difficult to break&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;into what is needed here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poetry does NOT end with the poem   rather&lt;br /&gt;  it begins with it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;might as well be living on Yourrainus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        for all the &lt;br /&gt;        whining goin&#39; &lt;br /&gt;        on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well, later-gators&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got various and sundried</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1272026539847467867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1272026539847467867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240228320000#c1272026539847467867' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3409187651897421122</id><published>2009-04-20T04:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T04:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hi &#xa;iam iranian &#xa;i translate the age of huge huts/...</title><summary type='text'>hi &lt;br /&gt;iam iranian &lt;br /&gt;i translate the age of huge huts/2197 in persian &lt;br /&gt;i am translating ketjak now &lt;br /&gt;my adress is www.ogling.blogsky.com &lt;br /&gt;haghighi</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3409187651897421122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3409187651897421122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240216500000#c3409187651897421122' title=''/><author><name>haghighi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13030776566074317722</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1553347036"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2751447097558926066</id><published>2009-04-20T02:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T02:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Seth, &#xa;&#xa;Have you published about Ron Jones, o...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Seth, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you published about Ron Jones, other than your post above?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven&#39;t heard of him, and maybe the search engines or my keywords are at fault here, but I find little about him on the net, which suprises me for a poet seemingly recently dead who you say is &quot;sorely missed by a flock of several hundred poets.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you can list a half-dozen or ten</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2751447097558926066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2751447097558926066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240207980000#c2751447097558926066' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8489443760269710711</id><published>2009-04-20T01:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T01:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;I&#39;m sorry that you hadn&#39;t heard of him, and ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m sorry that you hadn&#39;t heard of him, and I&#39;m sorry that I didn&#39;t send you a note about him:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;I&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Holm_(poet)&lt;/I&gt;&lt;I&gt;http://www.billholm.com/&lt;/I&gt;But, I&amp;#39;m not surprised that you hadn&amp;#39;t heard of him as he lived in Minneota, MN -- a small town of about 1500 people in the southwest part of the state.  He taught at Southwest Minnesota</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8489443760269710711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8489443760269710711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240204980000#c8489443760269710711' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7907255075731334288</id><published>2009-04-19T22:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T22:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,&#xa;&#xa;Please.  You spoke of Ronald Johnson; wha...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please.  You spoke of Ronald Johnson; what about the late poet &lt;EM&gt;Ron Jones&lt;/EM&gt;...?  If ever a man embodied a sub-community it was him, and he&#39;s sorely missed by a flock of several hundred poets, myself included, whose sub-community--its name--I&#39;m sure Ron has never heard of, either.  And I don&#39;t blame him for that.  If you think sub-communities don&#39;t exist, it could only be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/7907255075731334288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/7907255075731334288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240196160000#c7907255075731334288' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3799325720875546784</id><published>2009-04-19T21:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T21:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Self-publication--when it is a genuine expression ...</title><summary type='text'>Self-publication--when it is a genuine expression of a creative vision--and not simply a mimicking of the cliches of the publication system--usually trumps traditional models.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that would include fine press as well.  Most fine press is entangled in cliches of format and content.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take someone like Larry Clark, whose first photobook--Teenage Lust--was self-published.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3799325720875546784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3799325720875546784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240189920000#c3799325720875546784' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8300061714886607792</id><published>2009-04-19T21:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T21:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>gender&#xa;&#xa;generative derivation&#xa;&#xa;genius / der (duh)&#xa;...</title><summary type='text'>gender&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;generative derivation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;genius / der (duh)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;genesis d&#39;error (d&#39;or_&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;genesis is the golden error.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nuff said.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8300061714886607792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8300061714886607792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240189320000#c8300061714886607792' 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/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-661968830523173244</id><published>2009-04-19T20:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T20:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;As this becomes more apparent, the fiction that t...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;As this becomes more apparent, the fiction that there is such a thing as poetry will become increasingly transparent. Instead there are poetries, a word that perhaps should never be used in the singular without a hyphen in front of it.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&#39;t understand the division here.  Poetry (made things, here, of words).  There are externally asserted &quot;types&quot; of made things (language poetry, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/661968830523173244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/661968830523173244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240188780000#c661968830523173244' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8239997462402462815</id><published>2009-04-19T18:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T18:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seth Abramson said:&#xa;&#xa;“One way to drive that point ...</title><summary type='text'>Seth Abramson said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“One way to drive that point home: if we accept that one restriction (of many) of the blogs is that they seem capable only of capturing the poets and poetries published either by trade, university, large independent, or well-connected micro-presses, in their dialogues--ignoring altogether any poet in America without at least one full-length collection--we realize </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8239997462402462815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8239997462402462815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240180920000#c8239997462402462815' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2243101386224510349</id><published>2009-04-19T18:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T18:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Holm died almost two months ago (the local ob...</title><summary type='text'>Bill Holm died almost two months ago (the local obit was published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on 2/27/09 &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.startribune.com/local/40354082.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(click here to go) &lt;/A&gt;), just to keep things in a time-space context. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Ron&#39;s comment about not getting a note about it should serve as a reminder that as an aggregator of things poetic, Ron&#39;s not a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2243101386224510349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2243101386224510349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240180680000#c2243101386224510349' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4136970342807677487</id><published>2009-04-19T18:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T18:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think my comment was clear, but I&#39;m glad we agre...</title><summary type='text'>I think my comment was clear, but I&#39;m glad we agree on the implications of understanding just how large the U.S. poetry community is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who would try to locate gender distinctions in a conversation which--actually--has only rarely come up, on the blogs or anywhere (and whose participant base is thus far too small for statistically-significant trend-lines to be observed) is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/4136970342807677487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/4136970342807677487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240179600000#c4136970342807677487' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1914146303543000431</id><published>2009-04-19T17:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T17:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seth, you are all over the map. None of your vague...</title><summary type='text'>Seth, you are all over the map. None of your vaguely-stated points here cohere in any kind of convincing way, except maybe the idea that the huge number of poets writing today expands the possibility of what can be done in poetry, with which I don&#39;t necessarily agree. There&#39;s a lot to read, look at, and think about---I agree with that, if you were saying it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn&#39;t say that any </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1914146303543000431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/1914146303543000431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240175640000#c1914146303543000431' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5666664478845439393</id><published>2009-04-19T13:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T13:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>FWIW (to Annandale), I think I raised the question...</title><summary type='text'>FWIW (to Annandale), I think I raised the question of whether the actual figure for working poets in the U.S. is approx. 50,000 only in response to Ron quoting a much lower figure--and simple math suggesting that figure had to be wrong.  But that said, I think Ron&#39;s done an excellent job, here and elsewhere, of emphasizing why the number is important (for totally different reasons, of course, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/5666664478845439393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/5666664478845439393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240162980000#c5666664478845439393' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2119019793016897951</id><published>2009-04-19T13:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T13:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Aristotle anyone?</title><summary type='text'>Aristotle anyone?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2119019793016897951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/2119019793016897951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240161960000#c2119019793016897951' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7368882273219673218</id><published>2009-04-19T13:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T13:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nobody sent me a note re Bill Holm. It&#39;s not only ...</title><summary type='text'>Nobody sent me a note re Bill Holm. It&#39;s not only the first I&#39;ve heard of his passing, it&#39;s the first I&#39;ve heard of him.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/7368882273219673218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/7368882273219673218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240160700000#c7368882273219673218' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8643552233007198767</id><published>2009-04-19T13:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T13:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Even as you may have written poems that aren’t sup...</title><summary type='text'>Even as you may have written poems that aren’t supposed to be Language Poetry, you are invested in the term Language Poet next to your name.  Language Poetry is interesting to me as something that responds to the eternal questions of form in poetry rather than as a branching off from poetry.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see pretty much any hyphen term in that way: vispo, computer poetry, conceptual, flarf, etc</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8643552233007198767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/8643552233007198767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240160520000#c8643552233007198767' 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/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3906873388942628958</id><published>2009-04-19T12:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T12:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are poets who die who do not get a black box...</title><summary type='text'>There are poets who die who do not get a black box on the Silliman blog.  Bill Holm is an example.  He died on Feb 25 and his death got a lot of notice here in Minnesota, but I assumed that since he was a &quot;quietude&quot; poet tied to Robert Bly and Garrison Keillor that his death wasn&#39;t noteworthy for the Silliman blog.  So, I think the statistical analysis is somewhat flawed.  I also just finished </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3906873388942628958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8414303278772232840/comments/default/3906873388942628958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html?showComment=1240159260000#c3906873388942628958' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-deaths-in-and-around-poetry.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8414303278772232840' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8414303278772232840' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2009"/></entry></feed>