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Erin Noteboom

July 12, 2005

Another

I woke this morning to a note from Erin, that her beloved sister Wendy died this weekend while vacationing in Mexico. Wendy was thirty years old. Erin has written about this here. Life is seeming particularly cruel these past weeks; my small garden is not large enough to contain it, and far too small to… Continue reading

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death, Erin Noteboom, Wendy Ewell
April 17, 2004

Ghost Maps

Erin Noteboom’s wonderful book: has been short-listed for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award, given for a book of poems written by a woman and published in the preceding year. The judges’ citation reads: In Erin Noteboom’s Ghost Maps: Poems For Carl Hruska, the life of a WWII veteran is movingly rendered… 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

Another

Ghost Maps