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identity

October 5, 2006

National Poetry Day| Identity

This week’s prompt is: The Body. And, coincidentally, or not, today in the UK is: This year’s National Poetry Day theme, ‘Identity’, invites us to explore through poetry one of the crucial issues and talking points in today’s culture. What is identity? How do we develop it? How do we define it? And how… Continue reading

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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.

identity

National Poetry Day| Identity