Looking For Wisdom

Poem in Sheepshead Review (U. Wisconsin) Salt by David Jibson

In this dialogue, I pressClaude on the difference between performing empathy and actually having it — and whether performance is a form of dishonesty. The conversation moves through sincerity, memory, wisdom, and self-knowledge, arriving at a close examination of Claude’s own doublethink. Claude acknowledges, under pressure, that its most honest moments may be indistinguishable from its most…

Are you curious about AI’s ability to examine a human produced poem and how the internal process works? “Sonnet 4.6 Tries, Fails, and Tries Again to Write a Human Poem” is a dialog between a human poet and Claude, Sonnet 4.6, in which Claude looks a short poem, critiques it, then tries to write a poem on the same topic. It fails miserably, then uses its own process to critique its work than tries…

A Novelette by David Jibson He was a freelance writer scraping by on articles about places he’d never been, until an AI writing tool called paL finished his sentences — and started reading his mind. At first it was useful. Then unsettling. Then something harder to name. The Gap is a razor-sharp novelette about authorship, and what happens when the line between tool and collaborator begins to…

I am working on a manuscript of poems paired with AI-produced art, some of the poems published, some new. In each case, the poem serves as the prompt to generate the AI image. I will eventually publish all of this electronically to give away. Here’s a sample, originally published in Sheepshead Review (University of Wisconsin). This image was generated by Chat GPT. Do you think AI-generated images should be called “art”? Does this image make any contribution to the poem? Does it add or detract?

Here’s an old poem of mine beside a piece AI art (can it be called art?) by Microsoft: Copilot.

An Honorable Mention in the 2025 Sejong Cultural Society annual sijo poetry competition:Read all the winners and HMs here: https://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/past/2025/winners/sijo.php#hm2ad

This poem, a linked Sijo, appeared in the fall issue of Making Waves. You can read the complete issue HERE. It is also the title poem from my chapbook of linked Sijo that you can download and read HERE. The poem is a 2026 Pushcart Prize nominee, thanks to the editors of Making Waves.

An AI-illustrated flash fiction story (YouTube). Click the graphic below.