WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

banned books

September 28, 2004

Banned Books Week

This is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. They have a list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books, and I have read, and loved, many of them. I have listed some below the cut. Independent booksellers with Book Sense have created this list of ten banned books in support of Banned Books Week;… Continue reading

Books, Current Affairs

banned books, censorship, free speech

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe 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.

banned books

Banned Books Week