WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

language

March 15, 2006

linguasso

Found at Big Window (click to embiggen): linguasso – dynamic emotional design This little program, entitled linguasso (for lingual and Picasso) creates totally random works of art, composed of text and based on varying emotions I have put into a small library. It chooses an emotion, then displays associated words and dynamically created sentences in… Continue reading

Art

language, lingual, linguasso, Picasso
February 25, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Awful Affirmations

Are you fond of this affirmation? TREATING MYSELF LIKE A PRECIOUS OBJECT WILL MAKE ME STRONG Have you, as directed, drawn it out and hung it on your wall? If so, you may want to quit reading this now. Because I detest it, and I am… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

affirmation, affirmations, language, precision, The Artist’s Way
February 20, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

I confess, this has been an abundant week — an adventurous week, given my usual quiet solitude. Even the solitude is abundant. Right now, for example (it’s Sunday evening) I am writing this during breaks from Poirot, drinking wine and eating good dark chocolate. While I can quite reasonably claim that the specifics are unusual… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, deprivation, language, Linda Hogan, luxury, nouns, religion, Sam Harris, scarcity, spirituality, The Artist’s Way, verbs, Writing
March 26, 2004

The Dialect Survey: Results for “Poem”

22. poem a. one syllable (32.39%) b. two syllables (67.61%) (11235 respondents) All Results Choice a: one syllable Choice b: two syllables The dialect survey is an expansion of an initiative begun by Professor Bert Vaux at Harvard University. Dr. Vaux prepared an earlier version of this survey for… Continue reading

Noticed

language, poem, regional, words

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.

language

linguasso

The Artist’s Way ~ Awful Affirmations

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 6: Recovering a Sense of Abundance

The Dialect Survey: Results for “Poem”