WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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November 6, 2007

5 Simple Tactics for Blogging Success

Today’s guest poster is Damien Riley, host of the Online Diarists Forum. You will find more about Damien at the end of this post. Blogging is like a Gestalt image: One person sees the vase while another sees the two faces. The trick is knowing what to look for and how to make it… Continue reading

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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.

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5 Simple Tactics for Blogging Success