WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Charlie Rose

November 21, 2007

Charlie Rose: A sadly superficial show on Human Sexuality

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6984115637129460871:125000:3206000&hl=en Last night, I watched a Charlie Rose program on Human Sexuality. It was, mostly, boring. This was not, in fact, a program on Human Sexuality; it was a program on adult heterosexual intercourse and human male erectile dysfunction. I’m seldom bored by Charlie Rose, even when I expect to be. This time, I didn’t… Continue reading

Science

Charlie Rose, human sexuality, Science
June 17, 2006

What I like about The Charlie Rose Show

Those of us who are attached to The Charlie Rose Show have suffered some anxiety over the past couple of months, now relieved by his return.* I wonder if I was alone in watching the show even more regularly in his absence — clinging to what is threatened? As he recovered from heart surgery, many… Continue reading

Television

Charlie Rose, PBS, review, Television

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.

Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose: A sadly superficial show on Human Sexuality

What I like about The Charlie Rose Show