WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

baseball

April 12, 2004

Cats are Better than Baseball

A couple of weeks ago, a baseball site linked to Watermark, and my stats increased by 50% in a single day. That was nothing — !nothing! — compared to this: more than 100 visits from Carnival of the Cats since entering my Friday Cat Blogging post. Again, these folks do not show up on my… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 1

baseball, cats
April 3, 2004

Amazing Quirks of the Blogosphere

"Who is this SB Poet person? Isn’t that name taken?" So asks this post at Will Carroll Weblog, www.all-baseball.com. Yep. Baseball. Some digging reveals that the poster is Ken Arneson (?), who also links to this post about programming and poetry — and this is where he found me, in the comments. How did I… Continue reading

Blogging

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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.

baseball

Cats are Better than Baseball

Amazing Quirks of the Blogosphere