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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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October 2, 2012

Resources for Digital Art Journaling | Vintage Freebies 2

[This is one of a series of posts on resources for digital art journalers and collage artists. You may want to read Resources for Digital Art Journaling | Freebies Guidelines: The 4 C's before downloading goodies. You can find my first post on Vintage Freebies here.] This is a list of sources I have used (and a… Continue reading

Digital Resources

Art Journal, collage, digital, free, freebies, images, resources, vintage
April 1, 2004

A Thousand Words . . .

From Sensitive Light, a link to: . . . very touching pictures taken by Wilson Hsu. The text is in Chinese, but you won’t need any words, no metaphors, and no symbolism. Emily Dickinson said "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." These… Continue reading

Critters, Current Affairs

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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.

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Resources for Digital Art Journaling | Vintage Freebies 2

A Thousand Words . . .