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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

writer’s block

March 28, 2011

Writer’s Block

Paper and elements from Tangie Baxter and Art Journal Caravan Continue reading

Art Journal Caravan, Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Writing

Art Journal, digiscrap, writer’s block, Writing
January 14, 2006

The Artisit’s Way ~ Knock-Down Artists

This isn’t the fun part, thinking about what blocks me; who and what in my life has discouraged me from believing in my capacity to create. Or in myself. And since I’ve done this exercise many times before, I decided to go right to the list of champions: those who wish me and my creativity… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

affirmations, The Artist’s Way, writer’s block
November 9, 2005

Blocked

It’s snapshot poem day. Am I writing? Am I brilliant and inspired? No. [This charming little gif, known as Deadline, is circulating through various newsrooms in the Bay Area. Reporter Janis Mara sent it to me, in a timely fashion.] Continue reading

Blogging, Frivolity, Writing

cartoon, deadline, reporting, writer’s block, Writing

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.

writer’s block

Writer’s Block

The Artisit’s Way ~ Knock-Down Artists

Blocked