WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

webdesign

September 16, 2007

Webstream: My week on the web

Every so often I get into serious web-surfing mode, and find things I don’t have much to say about, but think are worth sharing. I thought I might start a regular post on My Week on the Web, to post those links, and to list other things that might be of interest. It also will… Continue reading

Webstream

links, webdesign, Webstream
August 7, 2007

Linkage & Designage — Opinions Solicited

When I start redesigning my blog, we can assume I’m back for awhile. So what do you think? I think it’s rather imposing. Perhaps too much so? But — the three column layout should load faster. Some things are gone; some have been added. I’m hoping it will all make sense, and be easy to… Continue reading

Blogging

amusing, Blogging, webdesign

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.

webdesign

Webstream: My week on the web

Linkage & Designage — Opinions Solicited