WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

blog reviews

October 13, 2007

Opacity & Transparency

Click for larger image Angry Little Girls comic posted with permission [Lots more here; go see!]Via Grab and Stash, which I found at BlueBlog When Watermark was only a few months old, in May 2004, I requested a review from The Weblog Review. Wendy began by saying: As the weblog begins, Watermark tests out the… Continue reading

Blogging, Personal

blog reviews, Blogging, privacy, transparency

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 reviews

Opacity & Transparency