WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

PBS

June 17, 2006

What I like about The Charlie Rose Show

Those of us who are attached to The Charlie Rose Show have suffered some anxiety over the past couple of months, now relieved by his return.* I wonder if I was alone in watching the show even more regularly in his absence — clinging to what is threatened? As he recovered from heart surgery, many… Continue reading

Television

Charlie Rose, PBS, review, Television
November 2, 2004

The Choice

Last night I watched Frontline: The Choice 2004 on PBS. I hadn’t intended to; I already knew what my vote would be. But I started to watch as I prepared for bed, and couldn’t turn it off. It is a long (2 hour), thoughtful, slow-paced piece that came to me as a relief from all… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

Bush, choice, Kerry, PBS, vote

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.

PBS

What I like about The Charlie Rose Show

The Choice