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a poet’s notebook

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Mary Mackey

November 16, 2006

Poetry Thursday

Poetry Thursday had a really great prompt this week, but I don’t have the time or energy it deserves just now. I did do my usual snapshot poem yesterday, and I’m going to send you to a current, ongoing conversation at The Well with poet and novelist Mary Mackey: Mary Mackey is the author… Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’06, poetry, poetry thursday, Poets

Mary Mackey, NaBloPoMo, poetry, poetry thursday, The Well

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

Mary Mackey

Poetry Thursday