The title of the poem was an inspiration that guided me through the narrative that exists from the opening to the open-ended last line. I often think of self-portraits in poetry as a way for the writer to find the speakers’ selves from remnants of echoes, or images from the figments of memory. In this poem, Wi-Fi is how I imagine portraits of the speaker that only exist as mirages.
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"Will Writers and Publishers Accept the ChatGPT Poet?"
"When asked why it couldn’t manage any blank verse, the chatbot admitted that one reason might be because there was not enough blank verse in its training data for it to generate the same 'confidently....' Upon delving deeper, ChatGPT admitted that some of the literary works it was trained on, including poems, 'may be protected by copyright.'"
via THE HINDU |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Isabel Zapata (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"I wrote the book Una ballena es un país (translated as A Whale Is a Country by Robin Myers), in an attempt to say what the language of the academy and the language of activism hadn’t allowed me to say....I conceived this book as an invitation to challenge the boundaries between action and reality, between poetry and essays and stories, between the role we think we play on this planet and the role that climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction demand we take up." |
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