<?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.post1780276563302082346..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/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.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>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1525660237895408811</id><published>2008-06-29T17:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T17:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The 4 weeks of Naropa&#39;s Summer Writing Program cou...</title><summary type='text'>The 4 weeks of Naropa&#39;s Summer Writing Program could be considered a kind of post-avant conference, too. I can&#39;t speak for week 1, but week 2 is now ending and featured Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, Linh Dinh, Daniel Kane on experimental film &amp; poetry, Elizabeth Robertson, Anselm Hollo, Jack Collom, Orlando White, Eleni Sikelianos, Laura Mullen, Will Alexander, Chris Tysh, Daniel A. Martin, and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/1525660237895408811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/1525660237895408811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214773320000#c1525660237895408811' title=''/><author><name>charles</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02186181900863150845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.chax.org/images/charles.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1267925125"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6441196737653847759</id><published>2008-06-25T11:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T11:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Contemporary poetics and political antagonism--I w...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Contemporary poetics and political antagonism&lt;/I&gt;--I wish I&#39;d known about this SPT conference beforehand! Would have driven a carload down from Vancouver.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/6441196737653847759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/6441196737653847759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214408880000#c6441196737653847759' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Vidaver</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05176551395199478337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.recomposition.net/Aaron-Vidaver-061227.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-364537339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9071769490093010701</id><published>2008-06-24T16:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T16:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Two things:1. How can anti-establishment &#39;poetic&#39; ...</title><summary type='text'>Two things:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. How can anti-establishment &#39;poetic&#39; conferences be run at Universities? Isn&#39;t that, like, contradictory?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2. I&#39;m sure female participants may have been lacking. But, how poets with disabilities many were there? I&#39;m sure I can safety say, zero.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/9071769490093010701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/9071769490093010701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214339760000#c9071769490093010701' title=''/><author><name>Jennifer Bartlett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15931457867406555423</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-547270347"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7068035015330896698</id><published>2008-06-24T09:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T09:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What hierarchy do you mean (to which the wannabes ...</title><summary type='text'>What hierarchy do you mean (to which the wannabes learn writing requires submission)?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Without submission to an aesthetic hierarchy, of principles, not of people), the poet is just writing accidents. However many of those principles are initially received, they are transformed by the working mind so that the principles to which the mature poet submits are idiosyncratic (we call this style</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/7068035015330896698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/7068035015330896698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214314800000#c7068035015330896698' title=''/><author><name>CivilizeMe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='29' src='http://people.bu.edu/zakbos/img/looking.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-824652493"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-183060519361666919</id><published>2008-06-24T07:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T07:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>perhaps Poets should spend less time at conference...</title><summary type='text'>perhaps Poets should spend less time at conferences making connections and more time on creating poetry? It seems to me that poetry especially &#39;experimental&#39; poetry has turned into a series of events to be seen at when in reality poetry should be a socio-political exercise. AWP will be in Chicago in March and I am sure that the same poets will organize a marathon reading so that everyone gets 10 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/183060519361666919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/183060519361666919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214307840000#c183060519361666919' title=''/><author><name>Raymond Bianchi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15615084452699116237</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-439989596"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6564323087977339547</id><published>2008-06-23T11:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T11:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Just a question-- are the three groupings that...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just a question-- are the three groupings that you identify really &quot;mutually exclusive&quot;?  Aesthetically speaking?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/6564323087977339547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/6564323087977339547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214235240000#c6564323087977339547' title=''/><author><name>equivocal</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00408199156528969347</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1569202724"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6911232456565821074</id><published>2008-06-22T18:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T18:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stalking out grounds? Interesting visual there.</title><summary type='text'>Stalking out grounds? Interesting visual there.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/6911232456565821074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/6911232456565821074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214174340000#c6911232456565821074' title=''/><author><name>Judy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05516857305795744182</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846624484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117060062614591474</id><published>2008-06-22T18:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T18:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>my friend, Chin Fay-Ling once asked me:&quot;what do yo...</title><summary type='text'>my friend, Chin Fay-Ling once asked me:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;what do you think about&lt;BR/&gt;&#39;emptiness&quot;, in the Buddhist sense?&#39;  I replied:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I don&#39;t think about it.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the point being?..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;even&lt;BR/&gt;this &lt;BR/&gt;point&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;point&lt;BR/&gt;less&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I cld say much more, however...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am upping my Energy stocks portfolio... as Oil will be $200 a bbl soon..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/117060062614591474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/117060062614591474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214172120000#c117060062614591474' 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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8703926051454193283</id><published>2008-06-22T17:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T17:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually what&#39;s missing here was a fourth conferen...</title><summary type='text'>Actually what&#39;s missing here was a fourth conference held around the same time as these others, Press; A Cross-Cultural LIterary Conference held at Evergreen State College. Rodrigo Toscano, Laura Elrick, Kristin Prevallet, Leonard Schwartz, Zhang Er, K. Lorraine Graham, Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand, myself and many others were there.Conference participants were actually split between poets, political</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/8703926051454193283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/8703926051454193283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214171880000#c8703926051454193283' title=''/><author><name>mark wallace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.avecbooks.org/images/markwallace.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-820491683835201989</id><published>2008-06-22T16:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T16:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Aesthetic coalitions tentatively staking out groun...</title><summary type='text'>Aesthetic coalitions tentatively staking out grounds?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I know you politely asked that I and others step back and think about it, but no, no way am I going to do that. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve got some books to read.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/820491683835201989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/820491683835201989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214166720000#c820491683835201989' 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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5399059479696470927</id><published>2008-06-22T16:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T16:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron-As someone who was actually there, I&#39;m confuse...</title><summary type='text'>Ron-&lt;BR/&gt;As someone who was actually there, I&#39;m confused by your description/apprasial of the SPT Aggression Conference (which actually took place in Oakland). How do you come to the conclusion that it had anything to do with a &#39;poetics of the aggrieved&quot;? I assume you&#39;ve looked at the conference page ( http://sptaggression.blogspot.com/ ) - where, I might add, you can see that of the ten </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/5399059479696470927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/5399059479696470927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214166120000#c5399059479696470927' title=''/><author><name>dbuuck</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01168078423144600856</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-160349318"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7155427306473643078</id><published>2008-06-22T15:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T15:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Speaking as a young, relatively unpublished poet (...</title><summary type='text'>Speaking as a young, relatively unpublished poet (outside of something I had published in the most recent issue of &lt;I&gt;Critiphoria&lt;/I&gt;, I haven&#39;t noticed this parochialism per se. But maybe that&#39;s because I&#39;m not as involved in any particular poetic school or scene. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I live in southern NEw Jersey a little less than an hour from Philly, but no matter how I look, I can&#39;t seem to find groups</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/7155427306473643078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/7155427306473643078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214161560000#c7155427306473643078' title=''/><author><name>Abecedarian/f(x)</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01913278950823273657</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1091123171"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-193325448806695248</id><published>2008-06-22T14:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T14:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hi ron,u forgot about the HairFlip conference on m...</title><summary type='text'>hi ron,&lt;BR/&gt;u forgot about the HairFlip conference on myspace. ;)&lt;BR/&gt;Come check out our notes on what was discussed&lt;BR/&gt;at www.hairheartsflip.blogspot.com&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hearts. xo.&lt;BR/&gt;HF</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/193325448806695248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/193325448806695248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214157840000#c193325448806695248' title=''/><author><name>HAIR hearts FLIP</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07226782416837948812</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-892668300"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-482409361297885789</id><published>2008-06-22T13:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T13:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t know how to answer those questions, but I ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t know how to answer those questions, but I do know that from where I stand, on a grassroots level &quot;what is going on&quot; would have to include Stacy Szymaszek&#39;s terrific directorship and series at the Poetry Project, Erica Kaufman and Rachel Levitsky&#39;s vital Belladonna Series which hosts readings by avant-garde women writers and which has included men (such as myself, Paul Foster Johnson and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/482409361297885789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/482409361297885789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214157180000#c482409361297885789' title=''/><author><name>Tim Peterson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12788267620443595389</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ss3Eh44fNE8/SA0iNXCbgcI/AAAAAAAAABU/POvOEYAF3jo/S220/tim_2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-255165047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8308371761916322954</id><published>2008-06-22T13:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T13:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>From reports I&#39;ve seen, what seems to be happening...</title><summary type='text'>From reports I&#39;ve seen, what seems to be happening is some parochial back-patting by mostly unread poets for their professional advancement.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What outcome of any significance can come from these conferences? Will a single better poem be written because of them? I&#39;d honestly be curious to know, as nothing I&#39;ve read of any lasting worth seems to garner its quality from the poet having met </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/8308371761916322954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/8308371761916322954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214155500000#c8308371761916322954' title=''/><author><name>Daniel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7272760582484128014</id><published>2008-06-22T09:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T09:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I might be concerned, if the various matrices addr...</title><summary type='text'>I might be concerned, if the various matrices addressed anything but themselves:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How shall we proceed to continue saying nothing other than the fundament should exclude either the subject or the verb at a precise point in the anti-music?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would encourage them to search for a poem in the midst of their deliberation. I am weary of bread &amp; circuses.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/7272760582484128014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/7272760582484128014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214142960000#c7272760582484128014' title=''/><author><name>Lute</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09581428138651759605</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-587115507"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4467689033799935061</id><published>2008-06-22T09:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T09:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,I can&#39;t speak for the other conferences but yo...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can&#39;t speak for the other conferences but you&#39;ve misrepresented the San Francisco conference, both in terms of focus and the question of women (and not just in terms of representation).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tyrone</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/4467689033799935061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/4467689033799935061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214142780000#c4467689033799935061' title=''/><author><name>tyrone</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10893356047914344813</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-570102948"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-60202812357743923</id><published>2008-06-22T09:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T09:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Antithesis?  I doubt it, considering all the wanna...</title><summary type='text'>Antithesis?  I doubt it, considering all the wanna-avant-bees online, in the mags, and who are students of those who belong to the groups you mention, working out of academic positions nearly without exception.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It isn&#39;t sorting poets into socially defined buckets that&#39;s disputed, but the definitions of said buckets, and the notion of one&#39;s superiority over another.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/60202812357743923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1780276563302082346/comments/default/60202812357743923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html?showComment=1214140560000#c60202812357743923' title=''/><author><name>Don</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04995332885940017913</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/2008/06/am-i-only-one-who-has-noticed-that-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780276563302082346' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1780276563302082346' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1604261415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 22, 2008"/></entry></feed>