WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Blogging

April 17, 2012

Watermark 10th Highest-Rated Poetry Blog?

I just don't see how this is possible: Since I've been blogging again, I took a look at my stats, and discovered several visitors from this site (images are linked.) How can this be? Watermark was neglected for a long time. I recieve fewer than 200 visitors a day, and most of those are looking for Friday… Continue reading

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December 16, 2010

Blogging Angst

It’s frightening how much I’ve forgotten in one year of only sporadically blogging. I have to relearn simple coding. And so much has changed. The TypePad interface has changed. Facebook has taken over the internet world. I’ve added the Facebook like button to my posts; this is great, at least I know folks are… Continue reading

Blogging

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January 29, 2010

Announcement

I woke this morning with the realization that I am not blogging because, after five months of silence, and the death of my mother, I am feeling required to be profound. So this is to say: there will be no profounditry (profundity?) (profoundness?) here for some time. Thank you, all, for your emails and comments.… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2010

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July 21, 2009

Lost in the Social Media Landscape

No, sweet & silly Belle has nothing to do with the subject of this post — except that I made that image for a Facebook friend, and haven't done Friday Cat Blogging here for ages. Watermark used to be the center of my online life (which is much of my Real Life.) Now, there is… Continue reading

Blogging, Friday Cat Blogging 2009

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May 5, 2009

Auto-Follow is Anti-Social: an introvert’s thoughts on social media

I have recently entered an entirely new (for me) internet world: the marketing Web. My Etsy shop, an attempt to offset some of my online costs, opened recently, after several weeks of research, exploration, and reading about online selling. I've read article after article on using social media — Facebook, Flickr, Twitter — to sell… Continue reading

Web/Tech

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DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

Blogging

Watermark 10th Highest-Rated Poetry Blog?

Blogging Angst

Announcement

Lost in the Social Media Landscape

Auto-Follow is Anti-Social: an introvert’s thoughts on social media