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a poet’s notebook

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Erin Noteboom Bow

September 14, 2006

Poetry Thursday

This week’s idea is to write like anyone but you. You might choose to write like your favorite poet, your favorite actor, a relative of yours, or someone you know whose worldview is very different from your own.… I may do this later today, but in the meantime, something better — a pointer to… Continue reading

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February 22, 2006

Snapshot 22 February 02006

how thin — the hours away from my daughter I am preoccupied with faith, its dangers and its solace, as this snow falls, a drift of fist-sized flakes that sift from a dim sky, then change to sleetish rain. An hour, I’m told, for the… 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.

Erin Noteboom Bow

Poetry Thursday

Snapshot 22 February 02006