WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Blog Memes

December 1, 2007

Blog Memes for December

It’s that time of year again, when the those of us in the North think of snow and darkness and holiday lights; shopping and giving and receiving; family and friends and food. It’s also a time that bloggers decorate their sites with red and green and sparkles of various sorts. Seasonal music infuses not only… Continue reading

Blog Memes

Acts of Kindness, Blog Memes, Bloggers Unite, Blogging Without Obligation, Holidailies, holidays, winter holidays
October 31, 2007

Blog Memes for November

Every November (since 1999) is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) during which tens of thousands of slightly batty people (in accord with the season) attempt to write a novel in one month: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat- of- your- pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is… Continue reading

Blog Memes

Blog Memes, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo

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

Blog Memes for December

Blog Memes for November