WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Blog Memes

August 20, 2007

ATTN: Bloggers

We have a couple of global events coming up. First, from Listics: OneWebDay: September 22 The Web is worth celebrating. OneWebDay is one day a year when we all – everyone around the physical globe – can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. As with Earth Day… Continue reading

Blog Memes, Blogging

blog action day, Blog Friends, Blogging, facebook, onewebday, women bloggers
October 31, 2006

NaBloPoMo

NaNoWriMo too scary for ya? Maybe this is more your line: NaBloPoMo is an alternative to November’s NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, the program wherein you crank out a novel in thirty days. Some of us lack the imagination, stamina, and self-destructive impulses required to write a novel that quickly, but, by Grabthar’s Hammer, we… Continue reading

Blog Memes

Blogging, NaBloPoMo

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.

Blog Memes

ATTN: Bloggers

NaBloPoMo