<?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.post6097735065576679222..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/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2428771273150016037</id><published>2010-01-06T17:20:15.918-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T17:20:15.918-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/2428771273150016037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/2428771273150016037'/><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='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5481754140933828592</id><published>2010-01-06T17:09:57.510-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T17:09:57.510-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed,&#xa;&#xa;that should read &amp;quot;what are you confusing...</title><summary type='text'>Ed,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that should read &amp;quot;what are you confusing this with?&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/5481754140933828592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/5481754140933828592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262815797510#c5481754140933828592' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2703437154082151798</id><published>2010-01-06T17:04:19.474-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T17:04:19.474-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed,&#xa;&#xa;The Poetry Foundation operates Poetry, the ma...</title><summary type='text'>Ed,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Poetry Foundation operates &lt;b&gt;Poetry&lt;/b&gt;, the magazine. What are confusing this with?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would not characterize their magazine as &amp;quot;tons of Eigner,&amp;quot; but they did run the Bunting &amp;amp; the Zukofsky during Rago&amp;#39;s renaissance, the second half of his 14-year editorship, cut short by his heart attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigner &amp;amp; I had our debut in the same issue </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/2703437154082151798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/2703437154082151798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262815459474#c2703437154082151798' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8105961504409837420</id><published>2010-01-06T16:44:27.392-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T16:44:27.392-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Doodle:&#xa;&#xa;I do believe that you are confusing ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Doodle:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do believe that you are confusing Harriet Monroe&amp;#39;s&lt;br /&gt;  POETRY magazine &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;with The Poetry Foundations &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they used to have the entire run in a bookshop in Paris...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in 1967 I was there  had no place to sleep  so they let me sleep (in my bed-roll) among the books..&lt;br /&gt; OH   Shakespeare&amp;#39;s...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND some </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/8105961504409837420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/8105961504409837420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262814267392#c8105961504409837420' 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='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4312324553281231540</id><published>2010-01-06T12:29:20.226-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T12:29:20.226-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bunting&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Briggflatts, &amp;quot;Ashbery&amp;#39...</title><summary type='text'>Bunting&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Briggflatts, &amp;quot;Ashbery&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,&amp;quot; decades worth of Zukofsky, Stevens and Olson, folks like Reznikoff, WCW, tons of Eigner.  That&amp;#39;s not good poetry to you?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/4312324553281231540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/4312324553281231540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262798960226#c4312324553281231540' title=''/><author><name>Doodle</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/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1604261415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3170598476046924910</id><published>2010-01-04T14:03:27.697-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T14:03:27.697-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilly-bucks could be evenly dispersed across the U...</title><summary type='text'>Lilly-bucks could be evenly dispersed across the US, say out of a squadron of hot-air balloons (with &amp;quot;Poetry!&amp;quot; in big letters written on them). That would be  something like fair and just philanthropy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/3170598476046924910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/3170598476046924910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262631807697#c3170598476046924910' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6747623231353922020</id><published>2010-01-03T17:24:24.872-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T17:24:24.872-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It was very nice of Ms. Lilly to give Poetry all t...</title><summary type='text'>It was very nice of Ms. Lilly to give Poetry all that money, but one wonders at the concentration of so much capital in one house.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn&amp;#39;t it have been more judicious to have set up a foundation, as James Merrill did with Ingram Merrill?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m not sure that that much money invested in a single cultural institution really does much good.  They spend money promoting</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/6747623231353922020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/6747623231353922020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262557464872#c6747623231353922020' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4521599067744037046</id><published>2010-01-03T12:15:02.047-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T12:15:02.047-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Lilly Library...&#xa;&#xa;as good as it gets!  &#xa;&#xa;in Bl...</title><summary type='text'>The Lilly Library...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as good as it gets!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in Bloomington  IU&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/index.php&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is only &amp;quot;the tip of the ice-burgh&amp;quot; as to what she has given!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/4521599067744037046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/4521599067744037046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262538902047#c4521599067744037046' 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='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5734975769186663191</id><published>2010-01-01T19:11:18.972-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T19:11:18.972-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A legend.&#xa;&#xa;Thank you for everything, Ms. Lilly.</title><summary type='text'>A legend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for everything, Ms. Lilly.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/5734975769186663191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/5734975769186663191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262391078972#c5734975769186663191' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 01, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-533996902624366167</id><published>2010-01-01T00:42:04.397-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T00:42:04.397-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you, Ron...for another year of keeping up wi...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you, Ron...for another year of keeping up with who is there... and who will be there in their poems, but gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wishing you the best for the new year. Your extraordinary contributions are deeply appreciated...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/533996902624366167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6097735065576679222/comments/default/533996902624366167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html?showComment=1262324524397#c533996902624366167' title=''/><author><name>Jacob Russell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_MH8FpmUWEp8/R5c6tzFt2dI/AAAAAAAAABk/aremvSfbycE/S220/011_13A.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruth-lilly-1915-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6097735065576679222' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6097735065576679222' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-512040712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 01, 2010"/></entry></feed>