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November 10, 2017

HOW NOT TO WRITE A POEM

HOW NOT TO WRITE A POEM

For a challenge from On A Whimsical Adventure at Oscraps. Paper & elements from On A Whimsical Adventure. The challenge was to use only half the page, which I liked for this poem: that unused side is where the poem isn’t.

The font is Alte Haas Grotesk. The poem is mine.

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Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

HOW NOT TO WRITE A POEM

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