<?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.post7074914377962741467..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/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.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-6027395578286296293</id><published>2009-04-01T12:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-01T12:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s an excellent essay John Tranter; thanks for...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s an excellent essay John Tranter; thanks for writing it and letting us know about it here. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I take it that today it&#39;s still a mostly privately funded gig, but with some direct taxpayer funds.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course, the laureate position isn&#39;t the only one in which poetry and &quot;the government&quot; mix.  There are the poet-professors at public universities, and those same schools </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/6027395578286296293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/6027395578286296293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238603700000#c6027395578286296293' 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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 01, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6880931320918498141</id><published>2009-04-01T03:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-01T03:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have a detailed piece on the history of the US P...</title><summary type='text'>I have a detailed piece on the history of the US Poetry Laureateship in Jacket magazine here: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://jacketmagazine.com/21/laureate.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s a little out of date: written in 1991, but has useful historical information.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;PS: Horace is generally regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, yet he was a toady to the military and political powers of his time. What </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/6880931320918498141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/6880931320918498141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238569200000#c6880931320918498141' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03739715079566520944</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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1646968659"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 01, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8935444248222576697</id><published>2009-03-31T20:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T20:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Um, wait, the humanities have no purpose? Well, is...</title><summary type='text'>Um, wait, the humanities have no purpose? Well, isn&#39;t that why they&#39;re necessary?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/8935444248222576697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/8935444248222576697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238545260000#c8935444248222576697' title=''/><author><name>Steven Trull</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12568485477185375841</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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-860282443"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2472097828712054611</id><published>2009-03-31T19:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T19:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Curtis, To determine the difference between b...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Curtis, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To determine the difference between being US poet laureate and official poet of a communist or fascist state&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I advise traveling to Skałka Church in Krakow, where the remains of Czeslaw Milosz are entombed, and thinking about what those differences might be while you silently contemplate how that poet&#39;s life might provide some clues to the answer you&#39;re looking for.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/2472097828712054611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/2472097828712054611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238543040000#c2472097828712054611' 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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-622361668436458002</id><published>2009-03-31T16:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T16:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Working in a viable profession--especially one lik...</title><summary type='text'>Working in a viable profession--especially one like medicine or law--really is not at all the same thing as accepting honors and money for your art (or writing). &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Artists and writers can&#39;t be bought. Or, at least it shouldn&#39;t be possible.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What&#39;s the difference between being poet laureate of a democracy, and official poet of a fascist or a communist state?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/622361668436458002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/622361668436458002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238532300000#c622361668436458002' 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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3365416206913553709</id><published>2009-03-30T17:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T17:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh Curtis, Why stop with poets refusing political ...</title><summary type='text'>Oh Curtis, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why stop with poets refusing political appointments?  Poets should also refuse to participate in any form of politics.  So, bye-bye Aime Cesaire (elected multi-times a mayor of Fort-de-France).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And why stop with politics?  That&#39;s just the executive and legislative branches of government.  They shouldn&#39;t hook up with the court or law either.   Bye-bye Reznikoff.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/3365416206913553709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/3365416206913553709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238447640000#c3365416206913553709' 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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7281413000208645542</id><published>2009-03-30T10:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T10:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Would be interested to read your thoughts on the c...</title><summary type='text'>Would be interested to read your thoughts on the conclusion of Battlestar.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/7281413000208645542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/7281413000208645542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238421720000#c7281413000208645542' title=''/><author><name>christopher higgs</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15364925625482314529</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eBdoVWQhRAo/ScmG9PYCmsI/AAAAAAAAAMU/p2Y2JrOgEf4/S220/picture.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-230727396"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4540772205370333596</id><published>2009-03-30T09:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T09:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Poets should refuse to participate in formal, poli...</title><summary type='text'>Poets should refuse to participate in formal, political appointments.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Motion should have refused.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And so should all the &quot;United States Poet Laureates.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bad karma.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/4540772205370333596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/4540772205370333596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238419500000#c4540772205370333596' 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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7043567923800015037</id><published>2009-03-30T09:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T09:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You know what?  An Arab without an exile is not wo...</title><summary type='text'>You know what?  An Arab without an exile is not worth writing about.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And even then, Mr. Rochkind can&#39;t say an intelligent thing about the most exiled bird of sacred texts:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“And he sought among the birds and said: How is it that I see not the hoopoe, or is he among the absent?” Surah 27:20 (Verse)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“But the hoopoe tarried not far: he compassed (territory) which thou has </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/7043567923800015037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/7043567923800015037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238418240000#c7043567923800015037' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3501085464775877552</id><published>2009-03-30T07:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T07:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&#39;Did Sylvia Plath kill her son?&#39; I didn&#39;t know thi...</title><summary type='text'>&#39;Did Sylvia Plath kill her son?&#39; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I didn&#39;t know this blog now came in supermarket tabloid form too?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/3501085464775877552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/3501085464775877552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html?showComment=1238413020000#c3501085464775877552' title=''/><author><name>puthwuth</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y7wQjK_RhzQ/Sc38aaUICQI/AAAAAAAACdQ/vrb_HyYykTY/S220/bittern.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301628169"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3196819178923125159</id><published>2009-03-30T01:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T01:45:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/3196819178923125159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7074914377962741467/comments/default/3196819178923125159'/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/03/jonathan-mayhews-apocryphal-lorca.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074914377962741467' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7074914377962741467' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry></feed>