WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

creativity

December 2, 2004

Sustainable Creativity?

Regular readers may have noticed that I am feeling absolutely not creative. Old poems, bits and pieces from other sites — that’s all I’ve had to offer. Michael has been writing about sustainable creativity, a concept I want/ need to grasp. I am not sustaining. I am, however, reading. Several months ago my glasses were… Continue reading

Writing

Blogging, creativity, poetry
August 1, 2004

How To Be Creative

Very cool thread at gapingvoid.com, via boingboing. Continue reading

Art, Noticed

creativity
January 17, 2004

the bubbling place

I have been here on the shore all night the channel is filled with sea creatures dolphins whales manatee they call to me I grow wings & the angel shows me how to use them I have been lost swimming for a long time flamingos & fire lizards play together in a forest stripped of… Continue reading

Poems

creativity, poem, poetry

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.

creativity

Sustainable Creativity?

How To Be Creative

the bubbling place