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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

genius

April 7, 2011

Creative people …

"Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius." Marshall Cook This is for Art Journal Caravan 2011. I amused myself making this layout. Papers (layered) from Anna Aspnes, DeviantScrap, and ninascraps designs. Elements from Anna Aspnes, Paula Kesselring, Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan, and Rosie… Continue reading

Art Journal Caravan, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal

creativity, digiscrap, digital art journaling, genius

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe 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.

genius

Creative people …