WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

November 2005

November 3, 2005

Thursday Squirrel Blogging

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Critters

photograph, squirrel
November 2, 2005

The Day of the Dead 1 November 02005

This morning I woke to the smell of winter,thinking of you searching for hope. Where are you looking? In the bodies of women who are strangers to you. In rice fields and temples; in classrooms and markets; in the dangerous sea. Though this valley is bare, the mountains hide in a thin veil of snow.… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Snapshot Poems 2005

photograph, poem, poetry
November 1, 2005

New West Awards

I’m a bit late with this, but still pleased to see that: New West Wins Two Online Journalism Awards By Jonathan Weber, 10-29-05 We’re thrilled to report that New West was named the winner of two Online Journalism Awards at a ceremony in New York on Saturday. Hal Herring’s gripping six-part series Sex, Money and… Continue reading

Weblogs

Blogging, citizen journalism, journalism, NewWest, online journalism awards, Weblogs

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.

November 2005

Thursday Squirrel Blogging

The Day of the Dead 1 November 02005

New West Awards