WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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August 14, 2006

This Ugly Blog…

I wrote this for Watermark, then realized it’s appropriate for this blog, too. I think most folks realize that this blog is not designed for probloggers (though they may find some helpful hints here) but for those of us who blog mostly for ourselves, our friends, and for fun. Thus: resources and buttons. And thus:… 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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This Ugly Blog…