WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

women’s equality day

August 26, 2007

Women’s Equality Day

Today is Women’s Equality Day. I discovered the women’s movement sometime in the late 1960’s, when I was about 21 years old. Gloria Steinem came to speak at our campus. I went to hear her, because I recognized her name from articles in one of the magazines I was fond of; Glamour, I think. Irony… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

discrimination, feminism, suffrage, women’s equality day

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’s equality day

Women’s Equality Day