Simon Taylor

It struck me text-prompting an AI image-generator that the image it generated was as much the result of the text as the image pool the AI used. Not only this, the resultant image is as open to contest, for example open to the charge of cultural appropriation, as if it

I sat down to write this morning. Perhaps it is these unfamiliar surrounds–strange to be writing in a retirement village; where the weather has lifted, an atmospheric river disgorging its flow last night, and the sound of it, despite the insulation, the double-glazing, the general sense of separation from

“A good writing day is a day with the fewest interruptions, mixed with a sense of gratitude, just for being able to put pen to paper.” A FOOTNOTE TO COLOSSIANS            For ye are dead, and your life is hid.                     Colossians 3:3Let us remember the stillborn: how they cede their

Poetry Makes Rhythm in PhilosophyMaybe it was the Bichot Beaujolais, 1970 But in an a.m. upstairs on Crescent Ave. I had a conversation with K.C. Bird      We were discussing rhythm and I said "Rhythm makes everything move the seasons swing it backs up the elements Like walking

PEN’s Freedom to Write Index [from this source:] … tracks the detention and imprisonment of writers, and in 2023, at least 339 writers were detained or imprisoned around the world for their writing or otherwise exercising their freedom of expression. Since the first edition of the Index was published in

A group of academics affiliated with North American institutions have1 written an open letter condemning the ongoing scholasticide2 in Gaza. This marks the most recent collective gesture in a series of statements from anti-genocidal3 culture workers.4 But unlike other expressions of solidarity,5 thi