<?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.post116817911774405844..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/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.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>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116830682051132155</id><published>2007-01-08T20:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T20:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You may certainly be right, psfme. I guess we&#39;ll n...</title><summary type='text'>You may certainly be right, psfme. I guess we&#39;ll never know the jury panel&#39;s tastes unless it is made public which is unlikely. Here&#39;s a tip of the hat to transparency in judging processes though: Applicants and the public can actually sit in and listen to the out-of-state jury&#39;s deliberations of competitions in the &lt;A HREF=&quot;www.msac.org/ &quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Maryland Arts Council&#39;s&lt;/A&gt; adjudications</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830682051132155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830682051132155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html?showComment=1168306800000#c116830682051132155' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan David Jackson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03201582947527750685</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116817911774405844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116817911774405844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1957216601"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116830348243752775</id><published>2007-01-08T19:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T19:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I had a pleasant conversation with Gioia a couple ...</title><summary type='text'>I had a pleasant conversation with Gioia a couple of years ago on the phone.  Very cordial, very civilized.  We shared a respect for Donald Justice.  He didn&#39;t know who Ronald Johnson was--???  He was very hot on Kay Ryan--not surprisingly, I suppose, since she&#39;s sort of an updated female Stanley Kunitz, and a safe bet.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gioia&#39;s a politician.  I&#39;m not altogether sure he doesn&#39;t enjoy </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830348243752775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830348243752775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html?showComment=1168303440000#c116830348243752775' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116817911774405844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116817911774405844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116830262908525444</id><published>2007-01-08T19:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T19:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Contests are fucked, guys.  Each time you have unp...</title><summary type='text'>Contests are fucked, guys.  Each time you have unprotected sex, you&#39;re rolling the dice.  Grants and scholarships and prizes are about validating the taste of the choosers.  Start your own magazine.  Write your own manifesto.  Publish your own book.  Write your own poems.  Don&#39;t genuflect before capital.  Don&#39;t ask for charity.  Don&#39;t do it!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830262908525444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830262908525444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html?showComment=1168302600000#c116830262908525444' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116817911774405844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116817911774405844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116830058891674778</id><published>2007-01-08T18:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T18:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Gioia himself writes a fair amount of free verse a...</title><summary type='text'>Gioia himself writes a fair amount of free verse and claims to have no bias against it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if his administration believes there was previously a pervasive bias against formal verse, and is trying to correct that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The vast majority of &quot;poetry&quot; written in the US is still orthodox free verse. It sounds like John Smith&#39;s previous collection represented </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830058891674778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116830058891674778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html?showComment=1168300560000#c116830058891674778' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116817911774405844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116817911774405844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116829063013256834</id><published>2007-01-08T16:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T16:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The reference to &quot;how to get an NEA fellowship&quot; (p...</title><summary type='text'>The reference to &quot;how to get an NEA fellowship&quot; (paraphrase) concerns this pivotal, hilarous, yet sad paragraph from the Washington DC City Paper article that Ron cited:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Having unsuccessfully submitted his work to the NEA twice before sending his latest application in February of this year, what finally worked for Smith was sending in a collection of formal verse rather than a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116829063013256834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116829063013256834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html?showComment=1168290600000#c116829063013256834' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan David Jackson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03201582947527750685</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116817911774405844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116817911774405844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1957216601"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116824657388361735</id><published>2007-01-08T03:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T03:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The House of Poetry. Heidegger would love her name...</title><summary type='text'>The House of Poetry. Heidegger would love her name. (For once, the Indo-European root would be extremely appropriate.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We die in the Virtual Fruitbowl of the Bright Easy Chairs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hope some of those babies being thrown into her arms are dead. One of these days one of those random flying babies may catch her unawares and poke out an eye or break a leg, or even a whole hip. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116824657388361735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116817911774405844/comments/default/116824657388361735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html?showComment=1168246560000#c116824657388361735' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/maya-buys-brownstone-how-to-win-nea.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116817911774405844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116817911774405844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 08, 2007"/></entry></feed>