1) Find background information:
- Does the creator have a webpage, bluesky feed, Instagram page, blog, poetry foundation or other digital presence?
- If they are an academic, find their curriculum vitae CV on their institution's faculty listing.
- Does the creator have a Wikipedia entry?
- Does the creator have any YouTube videos?
- Use journal (i.e. Academic Search Complete) and newspaper databases (i.e. NexisUni) to find articles about or reviews or interviews.
- Use Google and/or Google Scholar to find additional information.
Follow up on any bibliography or list of sources for each of the items you find.
Keep a list of the references you find.
2) Listen, watch, or read the items you have found. Maybe even more than once.
3) Organize your notes and/or references into categories:
- Interviews
- Critical Reception
- List of Works
- Biographical Information, etc.
