WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

literature

March 12, 2006

Virginia Woolf!

A little weekend diversion: Virginia Woolf: Orlando. You are a challenge, for outer events, the outside world, the time etc. play no importance to you. Your focus is in writing, in gender issues, and inside your own head. Self-analysis and exploration of yourself as well as the outer world hold great importance to you. Which… Continue reading

Quizzes

literature, quiz, Virginia Woolf
March 26, 2005

The Stick

I have been passed the stick — twice! So here goes: You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? As I recall, folks in this story memorized books to save them (to save the books) from the fire; they became the book they memorized. My memorization skills were never strong, even… Continue reading

Memes

Books, literature, reading, the stick

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.

literature

Virginia Woolf!

The Stick