Tag: Poetry
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Can Humanoid AI Robots Handle Human Emotions: Sentience?
The Lost Book of Zeroth explores contemporary social, political, and scientific themes through the eyes of current humanoid AI robots with satire, irreverence, and neo-noir humor. Although the works are humorous, many people at poetry readings find that the poems and stories from this book have frightening implications for humanity.…
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The Lost Book of Zeroth Is Live!
Thank you, Alien Buddha Press, for this Spotlight on our book! Alien Buddha Press has spotlighted some works from The Lost Book of Zeroth. You’ve seen “AI Robot Barbie Sues Disney”. Here, Red shares letters between AI Robot Sophia and her little sister, AI Robot Little Sophia, whom she affectionately…
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Thank you, Chewers by Masticadores!
In case you missed my 10-minute video book launch. PURCHASE LINK Thank you for your interest and support!
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“AI Robot Barbie Sues Disney” from THE LOST BOOK OF ZEROTH
In The Lost Book of Zeroth, I created AI Robot Barbie, who is an antagonist to AI Robot Sophia’s sister, Little Sophia. (Because Sophia was unable to conceive a robot baby, she was given a little sister instead. Why her sister has the same name is a mystery.) Little Sophia…
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“My Mother Couldn’t Nurse Me” from The Lost Book of Zeroth
The Lost Book of Zeroth was inspired by a news story that Hanson Robotics’ famous humanoid AI robot Sophia wanted to have a baby. Obviously her desire to be a mother was a media stunt to give the illusion that Sophia is sentient. I considered how she could realize her…
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Spillwords Press Awards! Little Squirrel is Thrilled!
My poem, “A Squirrel’s Front Teeth Never Stop Growing” has been nominated for Publication of the Year on Spillwords! Congratulations to all the nominees for that award and other Spillwords Press Awards! Can I get your vote? You’ll need to log in (accounts are free). Once you select your choice…
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My poem “My Memoir as a Doll” was translated into Chinese by the scholar Yongbo Ma!
“My Memoir as a Doll” is a poem in my book Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir. I wrote it to express how I felt as a child paralyzed by measles encephalitis in the summer of 1958. I was six going on seven when my legs gave out one day. I…
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”Sonnet to Grief” is up on Chewers!
Sonnet to GriefIn Memory of LindaYou’re a flamingo stretching its wings to the rising sunA hummingbird gathering dew drops from my tearsand dashing about, like bees do from stamen to stamenYou’re the winter wind that left her burning lungsand the icy pond where she rests to extinguish a fireravaging in…
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“The New Girl” is up on MasticadoresCanada!
Thank you to the team at MasticadoresCanada for publishing my poem! The New GirlI pray to be a perfect work,a masterpiece of unchipped clay,to heal all wounds and scars,to run on strong legs once again, as a young girl, who sang and danced in fields of fescue stroking my legsand…
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I received a 2025 Pushcart Nomination for “Ophelia”!
It was great to wake up to an email from Spartan Press announcing that one of my ten poems published in their anthology, Rough-Cut Elegies, has been nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. I’m grateful to the Editors, Jason Ryberg and Sharon Singingmoon. Ophelia There is a willow grows aslant…
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