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a poet’s notebook

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How Do I Blog

December 15, 2005

How I Blog

HOW do YOU Blog? It’s a textual thing. Pure text with some inline CSS. No graphics required. Frank Paynter at Sandhill Trek is collecting posts on How Do You Blog, complete with this very cool text graphic from Mandarin Design. How do I blog? Difficult to answer on this stubbornly blank day. When I’m less… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging

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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.

How Do I Blog

How I Blog