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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

exposure

July 6, 2006

privacy & exposure

[I’m on vacation. This was originally posted Tuesday, 27 January 2004 ~ one of my first posts] This process of building websites, and doing an online notebook, raises for me issues of privacy and exposure – how much to reveal? What really is the interest of the (unknown) audience? & when may I name names,… Continue reading

Blogging, favorites ~ repost

Blogging, exposure, privacy, Writing
January 27, 2004

privacy & exposure

This process of building websites, and doing an online notebook, raises for me issues of privacy and exposure – how much to reveal? What really is the interest of the (unknown) audience? & when may I name names, and when may I not? Is the reader knowledgeable enough to realize that poetry is fiction, that… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging, Noticed, Weblogs, Writing

Blogging, exposure, poetry, privacy

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.

exposure

privacy & exposure

privacy & exposure