WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

women blogging

March 25, 2005

Where ARE The Women Bloggers?

Well, this bewilderment has come to rest in the west, goldarnit. Ed Kemmick at City Lights announced an upcoming Yellowstone public radio program on Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging, featuring him, David Crisp and Craig Sprout. A discussion began in the comments (ever so gently initiated by Patia) and continues here, about the absence of women… Continue reading

Blogging, Current Affairs, Weblogs

gender disparity, where are all the women bloggers?, women bloggers, women blogging
March 14, 2005

More Good Writing

From A View From A Broad: You know, I think being a feminist is exactly like being gay. It’s something you can hide as long as you’re willing to swallow all sorts of insults all day long till finally you have enough. So much of the stuff women face is just invisible—the way women’s bodies… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

feminism, Politics, women blogging

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.

women blogging

Where ARE The Women Bloggers?

More Good Writing