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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

September 9, 2004

Oratory

Some of you may have noticed that Oratory, my poetry site, is down. It is likely to be down for a few days, as the domain gets transferred and I finish rebuilding it (I am moving it to TypePad) — but it will be back soon, and better, I hope.

UPDATE Friday September 10: The Links blog is also down. This is unrelated to the above issue; it’s something to do with subdomain mapping. Since I am using subdomains with Oratory, too, this needs to be resolved before I can finish setting up Oratory. TypePad Support tells me: We’re working on it.

I can see, though, that TypePad is getting slammed with comment and trackback spam, so those folks are busy right now.

Blogging, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

Oratory

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