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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

“Deviant Scrap”

July 1, 2011

I won a contest!

May was Deviant Scrap's first birthday. As part of the (very fun) celebration, Deviant Scrap and The Artisan Notebook ran a "Scrapped" contest. We were required to use every element in the Deviant Scrap birthday kit, a freebie (that's what makes up the room and background in my page) and could add whatever we liked. … Continue reading

Collage Challenges, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

“Artisan Notebook”, “Deviant Scrap”, “Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild”, “Sunday Postcard Art”, Art, Art Journal Caravan, collage, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, scrapbooking
April 30, 2011

Crying at the computer

I don't cry. I'm one of those people whose friends are incessantly pointing out the therapeutic benefits of "letting go". I totally agree with them; I just don't do it. Except tonight. Tonight I sat at my computer and sobbed. I had to get up and go get kleenex (trademark). All because of something I… Continue reading

Art Journal Caravan, Collage Challenges, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

“Deviant Scrap”, Art, collage, creativity, digi, digital, scrapbooking, The Deviant Muse

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.

“Deviant Scrap”

I won a contest!

Crying at the computer