<?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.post111437595870824755..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/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111518899511639885</id><published>2005-05-04T02:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T02:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think &quot;getting into publishing&quot;--especially smal...</title><summary type='text'>I think &quot;getting into publishing&quot;--especially small press publishing is really a state of mind, or should I say a fever in the blood.  Anybody can be a publisher these days with blogs and free Internet web pages and be read by thousands of people.  This is a far cry from the days of the mimeo revolution when one could only hope to be read by a small group of friends.  I know that my ten page </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111518899511639885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111518899511639885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1115188980000#c111518899511639885' title=''/><author><name>Jesse Glass</name><uri>http://www.ahadadabooks.com</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111503492340002885</id><published>2005-05-02T07:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-02T07:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ron, I think your comments on publishing as a g...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think your comments on publishing as a gateway to a greater literary community and publishing those who come from your web of associates is accurate.  One case in point is the minmalist/visual poet Marton Koppany: I&#39;d met him in Milwaukee through Woodland Pattern Book Center and had always wanted to give a good home to his work.  Eventually--13 years later in fact--I found </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111503492340002885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111503492340002885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1115034900000#c111503492340002885' title=''/><author><name>Jesse Glass</name><uri>http://www.ahadadapress.com</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111497128061879617</id><published>2005-05-01T14:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-01T14:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The next question would be how does one get into b...</title><summary type='text'>The next question would be how does one get into book publishing? I would love to publish my friends!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111497128061879617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111497128061879617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114971240000#c111497128061879617' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 01, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111478905111262071</id><published>2005-04-29T11:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T11:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>James,(a) great minds think alike(b) long overdueR...</title><summary type='text'>James,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(a) great minds think alike&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(b) long overdue&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111478905111262071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111478905111262071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114789020000#c111478905111262071' 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='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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111478848853002280</id><published>2005-04-29T11:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T11:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Just wanted to note the striking coincidence that ...</title><summary type='text'>Just wanted to note the striking coincidence that you &amp; I should both mention Ms Wakoski on the same day.  What&#39;s up with that?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111478848853002280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111478848853002280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114788480000#c111478848853002280' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02180536581514465000</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2122468508"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111475784882583980</id><published>2005-04-29T02:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T02:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ron,What a pleasure to see Wak&#39;s words here thi...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What a pleasure to see Wak&#39;s words here this morning (as well as your own).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hope she is reading this and gets a chance to see my BIG hello after a long time.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Diane gave me the use of her summer rental on Fire Is. in 1963, and along with Paul Blackburn and Robert Kelly was the first real poet to take my youthful screebing seriously (silly them). (My site has </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111475784882583980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111475784882583980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114757820000#c111475784882583980' title=''/><author><name>Harvey Bialy</name><uri>http://bialystocker.net</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111471813547376424</id><published>2005-04-28T15:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T15:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You must be someone who sees it.  Regardless of th...</title><summary type='text'>You must be someone who sees it.  Regardless of the dumb simile.  Yes, take it from me.  A credible soucre has frowned on me, and [you] see now [I am] inept.  Everybody&#39;s crap filter is decades in the making.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471813547376424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471813547376424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114718100000#c111471813547376424' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07412934080190052008</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1788089245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111471724441265082</id><published>2005-04-28T15:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T15:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It looks like poetry is the popular table in a hig...</title><summary type='text'>It looks like poetry is the popular table in a high school basement cafeteria, where some guy rips a funny joke and a gal spews milk out her nose onto another guy across the table, and another gal consoles him, then they look around to see if anybody saw this floop.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471724441265082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471724441265082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114717200000#c111471724441265082' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07412934080190052008</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1788089245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111471289055463875</id><published>2005-04-28T14:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T14:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,With every mention of community, tying it as y...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;With every mention of community, tying it as you do to coterie, I wince. I think the idea that my poetry has to have a strong social aspect (meaning that I must be a gregarious malcontent) makes me a little uneasy. Maybe that&#39;s because I know I can be a difficult person to get along with. Maybe, too, because I know the hordes have a some propensity to see people like me (ex-cons) as</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471289055463875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471289055463875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114712880000#c111471289055463875' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111471123579630186</id><published>2005-04-28T14:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T14:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hollywood actors don’t normally get “discovered” i...</title><summary type='text'>Hollywood actors don’t normally get “discovered” in elevators and neither do poets. At some point you hear the stories: Although self-published, Whitman finally achieves fame in large part by shamelessly promoting a letter from Emerson in the second edition of Leaves of Grass; Eliot makes his breakthrough in Poetry with help from Pound even though Harriet Monroe doesn’t seem to want to publish </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471123579630186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111471123579630186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114711200000#c111471123579630186' title=''/><author><name>Michael Harold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11165160971360124629</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111470965777359805</id><published>2005-04-28T13:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T13:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I quit procrastinating and finished up the speech....</title><summary type='text'>I quit procrastinating and finished up the speech.  Jordan Davis had responded to my query, and the transcript of the interview is now entered in my blog: http://jessecrockett.blogspot.com</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470965777359805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470965777359805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114709640000#c111470965777359805' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07412934080190052008</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1788089245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111470873399411553</id><published>2005-04-28T13:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T13:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470873399411553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470873399411553'/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07412934080190052008</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1788089245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111470300601729458</id><published>2005-04-28T11:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T11:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jesse&#39;s email is:tefflox@gmail.com</title><summary type='text'>Jesse&#39;s email is:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;tefflox@gmail.com</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470300601729458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470300601729458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114702980000#c111470300601729458' 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='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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111470296473209627</id><published>2005-04-28T11:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T11:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;if one takes the slightest effort&quot; ... if one com...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;if one takes the slightest effort&quot; ... if one commits to a sustained effort and/or lucks out with the right friends. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not of the opinion that getting one&#39;s work to readers is the result of the slight effort, let alone the slightest.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tomorrow you&#39;re going to talk about contests, right? Everybody loves contests!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Before I go ... I miss Paul. When I knew him I was too </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470296473209627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111470296473209627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114702920000#c111470296473209627' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Ingersoll</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14661806559842869136</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1812046502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111469087190007731</id><published>2005-04-28T08:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T08:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&gt; Today at least the internet erases the geographi...</title><summary type='text'>&gt; Today at least the internet erases the geographic gap if one makes the slightest effort. That’s still a big if.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However understated, I am making the slightest effort, and it&#39;s true.  But there must be, as Brenda Iijima would say, an &quot;inclusion&quot; or &quot;abduction&quot; in order to satisfy or palliate one&#39;s efforts.  I started by showing my ass (Midwest phrase?) just over a year ago, and was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111469087190007731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111437595870824755/comments/default/111469087190007731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html?showComment=1114690860000#c111469087190007731' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07412934080190052008</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/2005/04/diane-wakoski-wrote-me-other-day-id.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111437595870824755' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111437595870824755' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1788089245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2005"/></entry></feed>