WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

feminism

September 10, 2008

Elsewhere

I actually blogged today, but it's about politics, so I put it on Open Salon: Unpopular Opinions. If you like to think of me as a mellow, spiritual poet, don't go there. Continue reading

Current Affairs

election, equal rights, feminism, palin, Politics, reproductive choice
January 15, 2008

Politics & Poetics

[UPDATED 8:00 PM 16 January: Wow. Andrew Sullivan just linked to the poem. My stats are booming!] My poems seldom incite controversy, but I Have This To Say About That, regarding why the New Hampshire pollsters got it wrong, has done exactly that, here and elsewhere. Comments and emails on this poem have reminded me… Continue reading

poetry, Politics

artistic responsibility, feminism, gender, poetics, poetry, political poetry, Politics, race
August 26, 2007

Women’s Equality Day

Today is Women’s Equality Day. I discovered the women’s movement sometime in the late 1960’s, when I was about 21 years old. Gloria Steinem came to speak at our campus. I went to hear her, because I recognized her name from articles in one of the magazines I was fond of; Glamour, I think. Irony… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

discrimination, feminism, suffrage, women’s equality day
March 8, 2006

Snapshot 08 March 02006

Today is International Women’s Day. Below are the results of searches (today) for woman women on CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, and BBC News: [I decided to put this below the cut, since it’s both boring and distressing.] ADDENDUM: I just discovered, from vegankid, via Bad Feminist via Fetch me my axe, that today is also… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Snapshot Poems 2006

feminism, International Women’s Day, poem, poetry, Politics
December 26, 2005

Winter Reading

Yes, I know I’ve posted this before; I’m posting it again because it’s today’s featured photo at New West Network! It’s also one of my favorites. Have some time on your hands? I recommend the Carnival of the Feminists V, at scribblingwoman ~ this should keep you well occupied for quite awhile. Then, for an… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Weblogs

Body and Soul, dandelion, feminism, photograph, Weblogs

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.

feminism

Elsewhere

Politics & Poetics

Women’s Equality Day

Snapshot 08 March 02006

Winter Reading