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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

digital art journaling

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
April 7, 2011

Art Journaling: It’s My Body

In January, I signed up for One Little Word, and discovered digital scrapbooking. It's snowballed from there, and now I'm doing digital art journaling. For some reason I am finding it easier to "talk" about being ill in images than in words, and several of the pages I've done are about this. So I may… Continue reading

digital art journaling

chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, pain

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.

digital art journaling

Challenge

Art Journaling: It’s My Body