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January 18, 2008

How to Critique a Poem

First, I do not expect every comment on my poems to be a critique — please don’t feel required to become a critic! Please, please don’t! I love getting comments on my poems; just that tells me it meant something for you. Critiques are, however, welcome if you feel so inclined. This post is… Continue reading

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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.

critique

How to Critique a Poem