Feeling self-conscious here, a contradiction in terms for someone wanting to blog or use social media. Also concerned about privacy issues. Anyway . . . This page provides a fairly brief introduction to me and Gino’s Blogs.

I’m a retired faculty member from Missouri University of Science & Technology. I taught there over forty years, many writing courses and a fair number of literature courses. For the last three and a half years of my career, I was chair of the Department of English and
Technical Communication.

My first “professional” poetry publication was about fifty years ago. Since then, my poems have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, online publications, and a few collections. In the future, I may post a complete bibliography but that has to be compiled and digitized. I also published a few pieces of short fiction and some scholarly articles in critical journals and anthologies. My work appeared under several names: F. Eugene Warren, Eugene Warren, Frank Doty, Gene Doty, and Gino Peregrini.

Rose and Gene in their yard.

My attitudes, practices, and ideas regarding poetry will appear in various posts on this blog. Some already do, in posts imported from Gino’s Ghazal Blog and Old Man Blues, both hosted on TypePad.

I edit and publish The Ghazal Page and am Managing Editor of Recursive Angel.

One topic I hope to post more about is music. I enjoy a wide range of music, from hip-hop to Baroque, from heavy metal to Vivaldi, from Miles Davis to Buck Clayton. (Okay, that last is not such a great range, but those two trumpet-players do really differ.)

I’ve been a print addict since I learned to read about when I was four or five years old. I still remember the meaning suddenly appearing the words on the page of the comic book I was looking at. (It was Calling All Kids, as I remember.) My reading, like my listening
to music, ranges widely, from Dostoyevsky to Carl Hiaasen, from Sartre to Pema  Chödrön. Etc. Teaching writing and literature courses hit my core interests.

There’s a bunch more, but expect that in posts or other pages.