… en begint niet te zagen over het einde van de poëzie of het drieste lot te moeten bloggen voor nop.

“My intent in blogging in 2002 was to establish a mechanism that would allow me to think & write critically – and publicly – about poetry without having to pass through the slow & sclerotic mechanisms of literary-critical publishing, or the limitations of any urban talk series.”

“But if my intended purpose in starting a blog was to prod poets to discuss poetry directly without going through the normal institutional mechanisms to do so, I really failed to grasp what may be blogging’s greater long-term potential to erase borders between poets of this, that or the other national circumstance.”

“(…) being a writer in today’s world is all about location, location, location. And the net offers poets anywhere a new set of possibilities for reaching one another, communicating, and articulating our lives, needs, dreams. Specificity & context should be our watch words. ” Silliman.