Wow, I see that it has been just over a year since I updated this blog! Exciting things have been happening, they just haven’t been in this blog. It’s time for a change. But first, the news:

• On April 4, I appeared live on the Nordic Mythology Podcast, where I talked about the subject of my PhD dissertation: kraftaskalds. These are poets in Icelandic folktales who do magic through improvised poetry for cursing, blessing, putting down walking corpses, and much more. Only the NMP’s patrons get to see the shows live, but the recordings become freely available to all several weeks later, on a variety of platforms, both audio and video. When mine pops on various podcast networks and Youtube, I’ll have a post about it here.
  

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• All of my new poetry, audio, and other writings are debuting on my Patreon site, which is here under my name, The Skaldic Eagle. It’s been running now for over a year with updates on the first four Wednesdays of each month. The pattern is now well established: the first Wednesday is a poem, the second Wednesday is an essay, the third Wednesday is an audio recording, and the fourth Wednesday is a poetic teaching. The occasional fifth Wednesday is usually a vacation day or general status update.
  

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• My Patreon site is really where you should join to get my best and latest stuff. Currently, I have started an “Eagle’s Mead Audio” series there for third Wednesdays, as I aim to record an audio collection for Eagle’s Mead that’s comparable to the one I have for Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites. In February, I started a poetic teaching sequence on writing traditional Germanic alliterative poetry, from the ground up, beginning with the alliterating sounds. This sequence will continue for a while into the technicalities of line and meter, and probably stanza forms.
  

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• But I will now start posting here on my WordPress blog more frequently. The plan is regular updates here every third Sunday of the month. Generally, these will be things that have appeared on my Patreon already. If it goes well, I may increase the frequency of content posts here to twice a month. News updates like this post will appear irregularly on an as-needed basis.
  

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• That means that the first of those new posts is next Sunday, and it will be a poem. Audio recordings will appear as well. As for essays and poetic teachings, those may just be excerpts, but we’ll see.
  

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Enjoy!