<?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.post116583851634631710..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/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116619930211283089</id><published>2006-12-15T11:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-15T11:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I never read a Bishop poem I really liked.  Very i...</title><summary type='text'>I never read a Bishop poem I really liked.  Very intelligent, very exacting formally, never misses the ring, but she doesn&#39;t speak to me.  Her private life appears to have been a mess, so maybe all that &quot;order&quot; served its purpose.   Restricting the post-War talents to two women seems unnecessarily, or excessivly, gallant.  I think if you put O&#39;Hara in, you have to account for virtually the whole </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116619930211283089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116619930211283089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1166199300000#c116619930211283089' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116611104091815980</id><published>2006-12-14T10:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T10:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Whitman &amp; Dickinson certainly are big American poe...</title><summary type='text'>Whitman &amp; Dickinson certainly are big American poets, tho Stevens is only middlin&#39; to my mind, Frost is teeeeeny by comparison. In the 20th century, I&#39;d start with Pound, Stein, Williams, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, Frank O&#39;Hara, Hejinian, Armantrout, then outward from there (Hart Crane, say, is up there with Stevens as the best of the conservatives in that century, most of the Objectivists are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116611104091815980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116611104091815980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1166111040000#c116611104091815980' 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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609775464882369</id><published>2006-12-14T07:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T07:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I was interested in what your said about read...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I was interested in what your said about reading. I love to write poetry but trying to figure out what to read is difficult. Beyond the big American poets, Frost,Whitman, Dickenson, Stevens, where do you go? You mention Creeley often, whom I&#39;ve read a little of, I like CK. Williams and a variety of others poets of more recent vintage. What about critics? I recently read a Randall Jarall book</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116609775464882369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116609775464882369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1166097720000#c116609775464882369' title=''/><author><name>MJacks</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02690914711845789958</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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-302903516"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116595345553350852</id><published>2006-12-12T14:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T14:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sex will curl your toes but not your hair.</title><summary type='text'>Sex will curl your toes but not your hair.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116595345553350852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116595345553350852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165953420000#c116595345553350852' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116593344064966114</id><published>2006-12-12T09:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T09:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>THE LAST WOLFThe last wolf hurried toward methroug...</title><summary type='text'>THE LAST WOLF&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The last wolf hurried toward me&lt;BR/&gt;through the ruined city&lt;BR/&gt;and I heard his baying echoes&lt;BR/&gt;down the steep smashed warrens&lt;BR/&gt;of Montgomery Street and past&lt;BR/&gt;the ruby-crowed high-rises left standing&lt;BR/&gt;their lighted elevators useless&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Passing the flicking red and green&lt;BR/&gt;of traffic signals&lt;BR/&gt;baying his way eastward&lt;BR/&gt;in the mystery of his wild </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116593344064966114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116593344064966114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165933440000#c116593344064966114' title=''/><author><name>forkingspoon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05103242774838156692</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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-619181895"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116589682459028045</id><published>2006-12-11T23:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T23:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Shanna, I agree about that doggeral section!  She ...</title><summary type='text'>Shanna, I agree about that doggeral section!  She read it at Robin&#39;s in Philadelphia when she read with kari edwards and Brenda Iijima, which I repeat was one of the BEST readings ever!  Wish we had video taped it!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CAConrad</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116589682459028045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116589682459028045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165896780000#c116589682459028045' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116589608831217162</id><published>2006-12-11T23:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T23:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Perhaps we could help give poetry a broader and mo...</title><summary type='text'>Perhaps we could help give poetry a broader and more prevalent  place in society by learning from what happened in this olympics with curling - emphasizing the hotness of the females involved in an activity will lead to substantially increased interest in that activity.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;feed://hottestcanadian.com/category/poet/feed/&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps you should have a &#39;hottest Amerian post-avant-poet&#39; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116589608831217162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116589608831217162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165896060000#c116589608831217162' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882791018391366108</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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116589389859868691</id><published>2006-12-11T22:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T22:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That moment is an important one: “I stopped partic...</title><summary type='text'>That moment is an important one: “I stopped participating there after I’d gotten to a point where I knew that I could get the best possible reaction by putting jokes into my poems, and then began to worry about the poet as stand-up comic manqué. That wasn’t who I wanted to become and, as much as I liked humor, that wasn’t exactly how I wanted to use it in my work.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The main regional </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116589389859868691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116589389859868691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165893840000#c116589389859868691' 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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116588964072762992</id><published>2006-12-11T21:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T21:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;the young woman who introduced DuPlessis referred...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;the young woman who introduced DuPlessis referred to George Oppen as George Open&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the blogger as stand-up comic?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the blog-commenter as stand-up comic?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;readings instill passion in a bizarre way. it&#39;s quite, even if the poetry is not, beautiful, actually. the listener&#39;s reaction, i mean.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116588964072762992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116588964072762992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165889640000#c116588964072762992' title=''/><author><name>zach rampold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05760349566128424884</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3743/2938/1600/blog.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1968973472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116587537241524107</id><published>2006-12-11T17:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T17:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;stitch together such reading scenes pretty much a...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;stitch together such reading scenes pretty much all the way to the Pacific&quot; has kept hundreds, maybe thousands of community poets creating...hats off to the&lt;BR/&gt;Cleveland poets at Mac&#39;s Backs,&lt;BR/&gt;the 25th Street Bookstore, and&lt;BR/&gt;the many other venues alive or coming to life.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116587537241524107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116587537241524107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165875360000#c116587537241524107' title=''/><author><name>e b bortz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08200367019990457349</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/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1619371590"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116585445452816014</id><published>2006-12-11T11:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T11:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Poetry support group.&quot; Haw.RBDP read the doggeral...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Poetry support group.&quot; Haw.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;RBDP read the doggeral section at the Poetry Project too, when we read together several months ago. Brilliant &amp; funny.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116585445452816014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116583851634631710/comments/default/116585445452816014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html?showComment=1165854420000#c116585445452816014' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-reading-ive-heard-in-suburbs-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116583851634631710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116583851634631710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry></feed>