My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind Anya Achtenberg, from Blog and Substack, Writing in Upheaval Oct 06, 2025 My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind Anya Achtenberg neuronal pathways--"rivers" and… Continue reading My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind
New creative writing standalone workshops For Writers of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Multigenre and Hybrid Forms with Anya Achtenberg Today, August 16, 2024: I am very happy to announce the Fall 2024 Launch of a new series of single-event writing workshops coming in September Say it! Dígalo!: The Standalone Workshop Series with Anya Achtenberg Each single-event… Continue reading Say it! Dígalo!
I am thinking that every act is a creative act. Only some creative acts provide an opening into something vital; other creative acts provide duplication, follow the path of habit, add to repetition, create walls - solidity - separation from the vital and the as yet unborn. And some acts, of course, create destruction. So,… Continue reading How can we know the writer from the dancer?
On a simple level, here is an opportunity to support good literature at a time when The Market is often powerful at blocking quality and truth. And, in this case, this is an opportunity to help support organizations that are proven to be effective and bold and devoted to working to improve the lives of some of the… Continue reading Why won’t Devil-girl just go away? Why now, the re-release of The Stories of Devil-girl?
The Stories of Devil-girl is a novella which I recorded on a double CD set and released shortly before the war in Iraq broke out in 2003. It works at the crossroads of poetry and prose, and of autobiography and fiction, perhaps also of the brutal and the magical. I began writing it in 1989,… Continue reading The Return of Devil-girl! or, The Stories of Devil-girl, a novella
Neruda suggests in his poem Arte Poetica from the first volume of Residencia en la tierra published in 1933, that the poetic art, or at least the poet, works and flounders and suffers "Between shadow and space, young girls and garrisons", which calls to my mind, somehow precisely, the situation of 4 young Muslim men from England,… Continue reading Back to the Invisible: the intersection of truth and the poetic art
Wow, there were words in the last post I didn’t even understand. I finally looked up “apophatic” and started to spend my time needed to write this posting following the links, the threads of the web in which the word connects to other words. You know what I mean. But this news has come in,… Continue reading The Bridge as Web; Good News and Bad
July 16, 2007 First, please check out Ethelbert Miller’s site http://www.eethelbertmiller.com and you can also see my contribution to his E-Notes at http://www.eethelbertmiller1.blogspot.com — thanks! Now, here is a different take on what we usually hear about the “unspeakable”, about unspeakable horrors, that cannot (must not?) be expressed in words. I was looking at a… Continue reading How does a word mean? How do words apply for the job of speaking about the inexpressible? Can they do it? And, looking forward to the road of Spider
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