WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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August 23, 2005

The Liberal Media

Reporters — not commentators, reporters — on the same network (MSNBC) on Monday (Hardball) referred to supporters of Cindy Sheehan as “anti-war extremists” and today (Countdown) referred to Pat Robertson as “no extremist cleric.“ I’d like to see what dictionary they are using. Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

bias, media, News
April 25, 2005

Blogger Interviews

Melanie is doing a series of interviews with bloggers, and today she published her interview with me. I discovered Chandrasutra shortly after I started blogging, and it has been on my favorites list ever since. I am delighted to be so honored. Since I’ve had the questions for some time, I resisted reading the other… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging

bloggers, Blogging, diarists, journalism, media

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.

media

The Liberal Media

Blogger Interviews