WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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Fireside Chats

November 8, 2008

Dear President-Elect Obama:

Re: Fireside Chats Let's have these again. Minus the fireplace. (Maybe a solar-powered atrium. Maybe the Oval Office.) Forget the weekly radio broadcasts; or, don't forget them, but make them weekly television programs and video podcasts. [I will confess right here that I have never, not once, listened to the President's weekly radio broadcast.] These… Continue reading

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Fireside Chats, President-Elect Obama

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Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

Fireside Chats

Dear President-Elect Obama: