WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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Poetic License

January 24, 2008

I am a Real Writer & I can prove it

Many thanks to Janni Lee Simner, via Erin Noteboom But really important people have more than one certificate on their wall, and who is more important than the poet? So I worked this one up, too: This idea was stolen from: J. B. Handelsman, New Yorker, March 10, 1973 Via Ron Sipherd at… Continue reading

Frivolity, Writing

humor, Poetic License, poetry, Poetry, Writing

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.

Poetic License

I am a Real Writer & I can prove it