WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Collage Challenges

For Collage Play with Crowabout: Autumn Leaves, for Sunday Postcard Art: Moon, for The Three Muses: 13, for Collage Obsession: Album, for Take a Word: Click the images for credits and larger sizes at flickr. Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

Art, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, scrapbooking
September 24, 2011

I don’t remember signing up for this …

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Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

Art, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, scrapbooking
September 12, 2011

Challenge

[Click the photo for full credits and larger sizes at flickr.] The Art Journal Caravan word for this week is challenge. I don't sit about thinking how sick I am, but this word certainly pulled it out of me. Continue reading

digital art journaling

Art, Art Journal Caravan, CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, ME, scrapbooking

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.

September 2011

Collage Challenges

I don’t remember signing up for this …

Challenge