Silliman's Blog represents the best - the most detailed and knowledgeable - poetic criticism of the present day. I don't have time to read a mini-essay on an intricate topic every day. I tend to use internet for even shorter bursts of reading. And my own blog is more of a recreation--I don't have time to do my own serious academic "research" during the semester and so need an outlet for jotting down brief ideas.

Silliman, Irby, Bromige and other poets I know personally were more in the sway of Olson, Duncan, and Kelly than I ever have been. I always resisted these poets a good deal - with great respect for what they represent. Creeley, Spicer, Coolidge, O'Hara, and the other New York poets were my ideals. I should be more of a West Coast guy, being from California. My late father knew Gary Snyder a bit, from his days as Dean at Davis (my father, not Snyder, was the Dean). But I disliked Snyder's later poetry, from "Turtle Island" on, for its preachiness. Oh well...

Why am I specialist in Spanish poetry? It's a long story of which more later. Thank God I'm not in the "English Department."