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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Poets

January 8, 2005

Poets’ Notebooks

I found this meme at chanticleer and Big Window — Eduardo says: Every poet I know carries around a notebook to jot down ideas, images, bits of interesting data. I’ve always wanted to take a peek inside another poet’s notebook. So I’m asking other bloggers to post a page from their notebooks on their blogs.… Continue reading

Memes, Poets, Writing

notebooks, Poets, Writing
December 22, 2004

Snapshot 22 December 02004For Árni Ibsen

Yesterdaywas theshortestday. Snowcame. Itsilencedus all. I tryto hearinvisiblestringspulsingbeneaththe snow- banks,or tinyparticlesbouncingoff ofeach other.I am listeningveryhard.I amwaitingfor yourvoice. Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2004

poem, poetry, Poets
April 13, 2004

fiera Lingue

I have been invited to place some of my work at Poet’s Corner on the fiera Lingue website, an invitation I am honored to receive. They want a photo, a bio, and a few "poems which can represent the Poet best." One of my poems is already there, amidst other and better Father poems. I… Continue reading

Poems, poetry, Writing

Poems, Poets, Writing

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.

Poets

Poets’ Notebooks

Snapshot 22 December 02004For Árni Ibsen

fiera Lingue