An Author's Assemblage: Notes and Notices

Some readers of “One Poet’s Notes” might have observed this week an additional link has been placed low in the page’s sidebar alongside links to personal publications. With the beginning of a new academic year upon us, I have decided to establish a separate blog, “An Author’s Assemblage: Notes and Notices,” for brief bits of material that could interest or be useful to students in my literature and creative writing courses. As a description at the opening of the blog states: “The accumulation of posts to this web page serves merely as an author’s assemblage of brief notes and notices: the collection of informal bits of information, quotations, and observations gathered as one way to display a personal reflection of perceptions on poetry, publication, and related selections of material drawn from my perspectives as a poet or professor of literature and creative writing.”

Also, this new blog will contain a number of items relating to my own poetry and publication of my work; therefore, the separate location permits such posts without intruding upon the purpose of the editor’s blog here at “One Poet’s Notes,” which has been primarily intended to complement Valparaiso Poetry Review and focus upon authors or topics pertaining to the literary journal. Indeed, since my latest collection of poetry, Seeded Light, is scheduled to be published this October, the same month that a special expanded issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review will be released to mark ten years since appearance of the initial issue, the supplementary personal blog will make it easier for me to inform readers about both events without any conflict.

Obviously, there will be times when writings in one place would be directly relevant to readers of the other blog. On those occasions, I will provide specific links from one to the other. Furthermore, subjects covered in each of the blogs usually will be noted in the twitter feed for those followers on twitter (http://twitter.com/valpopoetry), as well as in the “Twitter Updates” at the top of the sidebar on this page. Nevertheless, I take this opportunity to invite readers who subscribe to “One Poet’s Notes” for notification of future entries to add a subscription to the new blog as well.