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January 27, 2004

Erin’s Kind Words

Erin’s kind wordsof January 14:

sb, whose comments turn up here from time to time, has a brand new website — I’m excited. I know her from Zeugma, where we don’t see enough of her fine, sensitive work. She’s one of the best of us. Good to get another dose.

Later: everyone *must* go read her solstice letter.

(& I have finally figured out how to TrackBack!)

Blogging, Kind Words, poetry

3 responses to “Erin’s Kind Words”

Owen

January 27, 2004 at 4:42 pm

Stay with the experiment. Once the design is done it may take time to find your bloggin “voice”. Resist imitation, remain true to the voice that is of your truest self.
thrive!,
O

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SB

January 27, 2004 at 7:01 pm

Yep, it’s certainly taking some time. I’ve been too long in left-brain mode, assimilating the technology.

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SB

January 27, 2004 at 8:36 pm

. . . or perhaps the technology is assimilating me . . .

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Erin’s Kind Words

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