WATERMARK

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August 2006

August 3, 2006

Poetry Thursday

. . . this week’s (completely and totally optional) idea is to write or share a poem that incorporates a song. I am — again — using an old post for this one — I’m still tired, uninspired, and inward. But I do just happen to have a sort-of song poem, from the… Continue reading

Audio Post, Poems, poetry thursday
August 1, 2006

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Sharon Brogan| SB| sbpoet One-Line Bio: Introvert| Feminist| Poet| Snapshotter| Blogger | Digital Collage Artist/Art Journaler Brief Bio: I live in Western Montana, and feel an abiding connection to Southeast Alaska. I've posted a resume of sorts, here. I rarely send out my work, but have been published in Calyx Journal. A rejection letter… Continue reading

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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.

August 2006

Poetry Thursday

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