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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One serious problem in visiting the Bay Area - something we have not done as a family in three years - is that there is no upper limit to the number of days we could spend visiting different friends every morning, afternoon & evening. After 10 days, I can tell the kids are burnt out on the process and I have not had a moment to myself that was not on an airplane since we started traveling. So this afternoon we're bagging the process for a quiet visit with the man of steel in a movie theater. Followed by three days in Yosemite.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For reasons I don't understand yet, I seem to have been locked out of my gmail account. If you have sent me email in the last ten days or so, you would do well to send me a copy at rsillima at yahoo dot com. I'll try to fix this, but perhaps not until I get back to Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Thursday&#8217;s comments stream <br>
proved a breaking point. <br>
One person posted over 70 messages<br>
&amp; another descended <br>
into overtly sexist name calling.<br>
I don&#8217;t have the time to monitor &amp; delete<br>
over 70 messages a day<br>
especially when I&#8217;m traveling<br>
so the comments stream will remain turned off<br>
for at least one month.<br>
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And I may investigate using another system<br>
that permits me to block out abusers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;If it would help stop the war <br>
and bring down the Bush dictatorship <br>
I'd go on tour <br>
with Britney Spears tomorrow.&#8221;<br>
<span class=GramE>Jello </span></span><st1:place><span class=SpellE><span  class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Biafra</span></span></span></st1:place><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
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The <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1803475,00.html"><span style='color:black'>generational</span></a> problem<br>
in anti-war arts.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sometime today, this blog
will greet its 10,000<sup>th</sup> visitor. For a genre like poetry in which a
turnout of 50 people to a reading is considered a smashing success, this seems
remarkable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2002 will be remembered as
the Year of the Blog because, if for no other reason, political bloggers
(especially <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/">Josh Marshall</a>) were the
ones who first noticed &amp; broadcast Trent Lott&#8217;s outrageous comments at
Strom Thurmond&#8217;s birthday party, which led ultimately to his resignation as
President of the Senate. As the blogging phenomenon expands to a point where
there are now just <span class="GramE">under</span> one million blogs worldwide &#8211;
three other members of my own extended family have blogs &#8211; it makes sense that
some will focus on poetry &amp; poetics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I started at the very
end of August, there were relatively few weblogs with any sort of announced
focus around poetry, most notably Brian Kim Stefans' <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free Space Comix</i> &amp; </span><st1:personname><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Laura</span></span></st1:personname><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ble&#8217;s</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> weblog portion of her web site devoted to recordings
of poetry readings. Blogs such as those belonging to Brandon Barr &amp; Jill
Walker had a relationship to writing, but &#8211; like many early blogs &#8211; were
primarily extensions of an interest in electronic media per se: blog theory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since September, quite a
number of poetry-centric blogs have started up, some of them really excellent.
Here is a list of the blogs that I check at the very least a few times each
week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stefans)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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slightly controversial on the Poetics List. Some people there seem to think
that critical discourse has to follow an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">either/or
</i>model of communication, whereas it seems to me quite obvious to a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">both/and</i> system in much the same way
that both the poetry reading and the poetry book have concrete value for
poetry. Blogging seems no more of a threat to listserv discussions than it does
to the academy itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The blog as diary seems to
me of little interest. But blogging as a form of intellectual discipline has
great value. I&#8217;ve thought more concretely than I otherwise could have about any
number of issues over the past four months as a result of this blog. I&#8217;ve increased
my own reading, and gone in some directions that I would not have otherwise
taken. There are some poets whose work I might only have glanced at &#8211; Joseph
Massey &amp; Richard Deming, for example &#8211; without the discipline of the blog.
And others whose contributions I might not have thought through nearly as
thoroughly as I have &#8211; George Stanley, for instance, or Jennifer Moxley. Many
of the emails &amp; other communications I&#8217;ve received as a result of various
blogs have been enormously instructive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">These thoughts occur to me
as 2003 approaches concerning blogging and poetry:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<span style="font-family: Arial;">The number of
poetry-centered blogs can only grow and, as it does, the audience for any given
approach to such blogs will be forced, simply by the limits of time &amp;
attention, to divide. Thus are tendencies <span class="GramE">born.</span> It
will be interesting to see what the terrain looks like one year from now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<span style="font-family: Arial;">To date, most if
not all poetry-related blogs have come out of the broad spectrum of post-avant
literary traditions. This may be because such writing has a critical tradition
that is not only an adjunct of the process of tenure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span>&lt;![endif]&gt;<span style="font-family: Arial;">One visible gap
to date with regards to poetry blogs appears to be that very old one: gender.
Of the eleven blogs listed above, nine are by men. I don&#8217;t see any inherent
reasons for this gap, although I wouldn&#8217;t want to underestimate the number and
kinds of distractions &amp; responsibilities with which women in today&#8217;s
society must contend. But the form itself would seem to have several real
advantages that might prove attractive to women, the ability to bypass male
editors being only one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">6.&nbsp; Your recent project is a web log, or "blog," that
chronicles daily and in great, tedious detail the goings-on of the avant-garde
writing community in and around </i><st1:city><st1:place><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Philadelphia</i></st1:place></st1:city><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Your daily entries, often a thousand words or more, are filled with
analysis, links, schedules for readings in the community, and miscellaneous
poetry talk. Can you talk about this project? How do you see its role, its
importance? Does it fill some need in the poetry community? How long will you
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I&#8217;ve been thinking
critically &#8211; even obsessively &#8211; about poetry since I was a kid. After <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Sentence, </i>I continued writing
criticism pretty regularly until our twins were born in 1992. That first year
or two with twins is pretty intense &amp; there was hardly a moment in which
one might have a complete thought, let alone have the time to write it down. My
goal was to not stop writing poetry and I felt successful just to have
accomplished that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But, as my kids have grown
older, I&#8217;ve gotten back to thinking about writing &amp; publishing critically.
First, it&#8217;s excellent discipline. The process forces you to read more
intelligently. Second, all critical writing is a form of organizing, even when
the writer doesn&#8217;t realize that. My problem was/is that I saw few contexts that
struck me as useful in sharing this writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There has been a real
falling off in critical thinking since the 1970s when various talk series in
particular got a lot of people up and speaking intelligently about writing,
their own &amp; that of others. Part of it no doubt is the fault of writers in
my own age cohort, me included. The poetry wars of the late 1970s were hardly
an attractive proposition for younger poets, but in part that is precisely why
the various provocateurs started them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And part of the problem of
course is the continuing near-monopoly on critical writing by institutions in &amp;
around the academy. To be of any value at all, critical thinking about poetry
needs to be directed to poets. In the academy, poets are at best eavesdroppers.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But there has also been a
depoliticization of younger people generally &amp; that has impacted poets.
Some of it has to do with the lack of tangible alternatives to unfettered
capital following the collapse of the old Stalinist bloc &#8211; although for decades
it has been difficult to find any western Marxist who would defend the
so-called &#8220;actually existing socialist countries,&#8221; in large part because state
control over capital is not socialism. In the West, there has been no primary
shared point of agreement as to the goals of the left since the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> exited </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vietnam</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in 1974. That&#8217;s a long time for groups to go without
much sense of cohesion. The antiglobalism movement is not one thing, but many,
&amp; many of them contradictory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>Identarian tendencies were a logical extension of the civil rights
movements of the 1950s &amp; early &#8216;60s, but they have inescapably fed into
this demobilization by isolating the very people they seek to empower. You see
the long-term result in a lot of writing these days that is simultaneously
politically correct <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i>
depoliticized, a politics really of cynicism and disgust. So this also becomes
an incentive not to organize, not to write critically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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personal reason for thinking about starting my blog. Since this past spring, my
wife has been struggling with a chronic disease called Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy, a neurological syndrome that is both painful &amp; nasty. The
condition has been hard on her and put an enormous strain on everyone in the
family. It was in that context that I felt my sitting around thinking about
poetry, but not actively <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doing anything
about it</i> beyond the simple production of my own poem, was really lazy &amp;
inexcusable.* <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I decided to try a
process in which I would just write something critically pretty much daily and find
some means of putting it out there where poets might see it. It&#8217;s really as
simple as that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Because my nephew Daniel has
had a <a href="http://danielsilliman.blogspot.com/">blog</a> for some time, as
now do both his mother &amp; sister, I had some familiarity with the form and <span class="GramE">its</span> potential. So while my family was having something of a
disastrous vacation this summer on an island off </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nova Scotia</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> &#8211; not a good place to be if your meds aren&#8217;t working
&#8211; I mulled over the idea of how I might start a blog that simply focused on one
thing: poetry as I experience it. I began it three days after our return to </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pennsylvania</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I&#8217;ve been pleased with the
response it has gotten so far &#8211; I&#8217;m getting an average of over 60 hits per day,
over 100 three or four times each week &#8211; and the response, with a few notable
exceptions, has been positive. Right now, it is sort of the flavor of the month
with a certain strain of younger writer, but that will certainly pass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Marjorie Perloff pointed out
to me, right at the beginning of the blog, that a major limitation of the form
is its scale. These are really short notes, mostly sketched out early in the
morning, then fiddled with over the remainder of the day before being launched.
In this sense, the blog is closer to, say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L=A=N=U=A=G=E
</i>as a project than, say, either <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetics
Journal </i>or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain. </i>Though I guess
it&#8217;s worth noting that it has added up to more than 150 pages in less than
three </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">mont</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">hs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As to how the blog will
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I&#8217;m learning as I go along &amp; it&#8217;s still fun, not a sense of obligation at
all. I don&#8217;t see it continuing on indefinitely any more than I would a poem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But what would in fact be
even better would be to see a number of other blogs on the same general subject
that would take off &amp; do their own thing and carry the conversation ever so
much further out into the universe. Right now the ones I read most constantly
&amp; closely are those of <a href="http://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com/">Jonathan
Mayhew</a>, <a href="http://www.arras.net/weblog/">Brian Kim Stefans</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.laurable.com/log/index.html">Laurable</a>. May a thousand
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growing up in a dysfunctional household. That the stress of her illness should
lead to my blogging strikes her as profoundly parallel behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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