WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Lanny Davis petition

June 4, 2008

Why would she want it?

So. Lanny Davis is circulating a petition asking Obama to select Hillary Clinton for Vice President, presumably with her approval. I don't get it. Why would she want to be V.P.? She is one of the most powerful senators we have, and there are many ways she could serve a new administration from that post,… Continue reading

Politics

Hillary Clinton, Lanny Davis petition, Obama, presidential politics

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.

Lanny Davis petition

Why would she want it?