WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

January 2010

January 29, 2010

Announcement

I woke this morning with the realization that I am not blogging because, after five months of silence, and the death of my mother, I am feeling required to be profound. So this is to say: there will be no profounditry (profundity?) (profoundness?) here for some time. Thank you, all, for your emails and comments.… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2010

Blogging, cat, catblogging, Friday Cat Blogging

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.

January 2010

Announcement