WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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September 8, 2007

Simplicity Blog Review & Renovations

Yes, I know — things keep changing around here, and I keep talking about how things keep changing around here. I’ve not even addressed the Watermark reviews at The Weblog Review. I’ll talk about those later, but today — Skellie; her blog is my best find since I came back online. Skellie did a Simplicity… Continue reading

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March 30, 2006

TypePad Widgets

I am an incorrigible Blog Bling addict, as my regular readers know. This addiction was partly responsible for instigating this very blog — a place to put what won’t fit on my regular blog. TypePad knows its users. Today they announced: We’re excited to introduce TypePad Widgets, a new feature for TypePad that will bring… Continue reading

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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.

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Simplicity Blog Review & Renovations

TypePad Widgets