Information about "gino peregrini"

"gino" came to be in the summer of 1959, my first summer out of high school. I was dating a girl from Kansas City who came to rural Kansas to visit her grandmother. (No, she didn't wear a red riding hood, although I bore a suspicious resemblance to wolf.)

Anyway, this pretty young woman began calling me "gino." I liked the nickname and began using it, mostly with friends. In college and for a few years after, there were people who knew me only as gino.

My full legal name was "Francis Eugene Warren"; people who knew me only slightly called me "Eugene." There was a real difference in attitude and behavior between Eugene and gino. I had the pleasure of playing different characters in different areas of my life.

Except for old friends, "gino" pretty much fell out of use after I began teaching. I just didn't feel very gino-like in the classroom or committee meetings.

A couple of years ago, I read some things about Celtic spirituality and ran across the term "peregrine," referring to pilgrims and spiritual wanderers. (The "peregrine" falcon and the verb, "peregrinate," are related terms.)

The associations of "peregrine" appealed to me and, in the form, "peregrini," it seemed to go well with "gino." I began using "gino peregrini" in various contexts, primarily on the internet.

gino peregrini is the publisher and editor of The Ghazal Page, a webzine devoted the ghazal as a form in poetry.

I also publish sijo, a Korean form of poetry, as gino peregrini.

I have never capitalized "gino" and thus don't capitalize "peregrini" either.

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