Editor’s Commentary

VOEGELINVIEW continues down the path of increased readership, growth, and notability as we are now in the midst of the season of pilgrimage. We have experienced our best two-month start to the year in the journal’s history and our content is now being read across all continents with growing readership in South America and Asia, alongside new contributors emerging from around the world. Over the past two months we have published new writers and poets, and we will also be publishing new writers and poets for the month of March!

As we are in the season of pilgrimage and transformation, our pages have been especially attuned to the themes of faith, transformation, and journey over the past few weeks and will continue to be concerned with these themes in the coming weeks through Easter. In particular, we had essays on Christian education, Arthurian literature, and Saint Augustine appear to provide nourishment and wisdom to our readers in this season of love, sacrifice, and redemption.

Having grown from less than 7,000 monthly visitors and readers in 2019 to nearly 45,000 as of January and February of this year comes new and important responsibilities. While these responsibilities bear most significantly on me, as editor, it is equally true that these responsibilities are with writers. The increase in readership means that we are a journal that exists for our readers. Readers from all over the world come to VOEGELINVIEW to find “wisdom,” “insight,” and “great pleasure” from our articles, essays, reviews, poems, and more. As a journal, we are principally funded by our own readers – as such, we give back to our readers with our content meant to educate and inspire to the Good, True, and Beautiful in the many subjects with which we concern ourselves.

The successful transformation of VOEGELINVIEW into a public journal of arts, culture, politics, and literature is leading us to the embrace of themed editions. In April, in celebration of the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the journal will devote the end of the month to the great dramatist and poet of Stratford-Upon-Avon. The theme is “Shakespeare and the Good Life.” We will principally be looking for essays exploring the plays, and/or the poetry, of Shakespeare and how the Bard’s writings teach us wisdom about the human condition, what it means to be human, and the meaning of human life and love. Writers have the discretion to write as they please, but all essays will be assessed for consideration upon submission. Queries are also welcome if a writer is looking for a confirmation of interest regarding their theme or topic. All submissions must be sent by April 10, 2024, for consideration.

It is with great joy and pleasure that I get to serve in this capacity with a concern and consideration for our great and wonderful readers, writers, and supporters and it is important for all involved with VOEGELINVIEW—reader, writer, or donor—to hear that from me.

~ Paul Krause

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