WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Weblogs

May 18, 2006

Calling all geeks…

It would be really cool to have a widget to put on blog sidebars (especially, of course, TypePad blogs) that would let a reader click through to posts on that date from previous years. Of course, I don’t know if you folks would click that link — but I would. UPDATE Saturday 20 May: A… Continue reading

Blogging, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Blogging, blogs, tech, Weblogs, widget
May 14, 2006

Another (final?) Banner Poll

Well. This banner — right up there — was intended to be a one-day deal, but you folks seem to like it better than the ones I’ve been working on. So: Guidance, comments, suggestions welcome. And, by-the-way, I’m being quite impressed with the services at Blog Flux. They do these polls, and have a directory,… Continue reading

Web/Tech

banner, blog, Blog Flux, Blogging, graphics, poll, web design, Weblogs
April 26, 2006

Blogging Relationships

Dick Jones has a nice, rambly post about blogging and relationships: . . . there seems to exist a curiously phantom element to these inter-blogger relationships. We may feel a powerful sense of connection to the spirit, the soul, the essence, but have never heard our friend laugh, order a pizza or swear at a… Continue reading

Blogging

bloggers, Blogging, blogs, online relationships, Weblogs
December 26, 2005

Winter Reading

Yes, I know I’ve posted this before; I’m posting it again because it’s today’s featured photo at New West Network! It’s also one of my favorites. Have some time on your hands? I recommend the Carnival of the Feminists V, at scribblingwoman ~ this should keep you well occupied for quite awhile. Then, for an… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Weblogs

Body and Soul, dandelion, feminism, photograph, Weblogs
December 15, 2005

How I Blog

HOW do YOU Blog? It’s a textual thing. Pure text with some inline CSS. No graphics required. Frank Paynter at Sandhill Trek is collecting posts on How Do You Blog, complete with this very cool text graphic from Mandarin Design. How do I blog? Difficult to answer on this stubbornly blank day. When I’m less… Continue reading

About This Site, Blogging

Blogging, How Do I Blog, How Do You Blog, Weblogs

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.

Weblogs

Calling all geeks…

Another (final?) Banner Poll

Blogging Relationships

Winter Reading

How I Blog