About Me
My two full-length books are ‘To Phrase a Prayer for Peace’ (Wildhouse Publishing, 2025) and ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ (Free Verse Editions, 2023), ‘And Scuttle My Balloon’ (with Flower Conroy, was just released from Pictureshow Press (9/2025) and my translation from the Dutch of Lucas Hirsch’s ‘Wu Wei Eats an Egg’ was also released 9/2025 from Ben Yehuda Press. My chapbooks include ‘Slippery Surfaces’, ‘And Haunt the World’ (with Flower Conroy). and ‘Dear Ghost’ (winner Harbor Review Editor’s prize). My poems appear in Poem-a-day, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. I'm an emeritus professor, MacDowell fellow, rabbinical school drop-out, and former classical flutist. I get restless.
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General Release from the Beginning of the World (2023) is available from Free Verse Editions! And thank you Camille Dungy and Orion Magazine for choosing my book as one of 14 recommended poetry books for the winter!
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My second full length book, 'To Phrase a Prayer for Peace,' from Wildhouse Publishing (2025).
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I was one of 5 over 50 debut authors featured in the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of Poets & Writers. You can read it here and watch/listen to it here.
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I won the 2023 Harbor Editions Editors Prize for my microchapbook, Dear Ghost. You can read it here.
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Flower Conroy and I were recently MacDowell Fellows, and have a collaborative chapbook, And Haunt the World, with Ghost City Press. Download it for free here!
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A link to my Academic CV can be found here
