WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

online life

July 21, 2009

Lost in the Social Media Landscape

No, sweet & silly Belle has nothing to do with the subject of this post — except that I made that image for a Facebook friend, and haven't done Friday Cat Blogging here for ages. Watermark used to be the center of my online life (which is much of my Real Life.) Now, there is… Continue reading

Blogging, Friday Cat Blogging 2009

Blogging, cat, catblogging, facebook, online life, photo, photograph, social 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.

online life

Lost in the Social Media Landscape