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June 1, 2006

Poetry Thursday

Two poets write a poem in 15 minutes. You can see the letters as they
type them in, and if they decide to delete them or change something,
you see that too. You can read the ‘finished’ poem or watch it appear
over 15 minutes bit by bit.

This week’s suggestion was to read poetry aloud — which I often do, and here is a link to my audio posts, in case any of you would like to hear my poems.

So two diversions today.

Enjoy.

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Maureen

June 2, 2006 at 10:36 am

I love your diversions, both the Quick Muse site (what a useful thing — to see that other poets revise and umm, errr, think, cross out … to get inside the creative mind of a poet!) and your audio posts. Reading poetry aloud changes the poem. I say mine aloud as I write. mutter mutter.

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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.

Poetry Thursday

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